Manatee Palms Youth Services
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Manatee Palms Youth Services is a 60-bed psychiatric hospital in Bradenton, Florida
, and a subsidiary of for-profit Psychiatric Solutions
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. Most of the referrals it receives are from Florida Medicaid. It is a locked institution for male and female patients aged 6–17, with on-campus school and sports facilities. Its specialty populations presently has a children's unit, an adolescent male behavioral unit and a Female Behavioral Unit.
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In 2008, the late David Guymon (former CEO of Manatee Palms) was awarded the TRAUMA Champion Award by the University of South Florida's
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, recognizing his "commitment to trauma informed care".
Manatee Palms Youth Services has been required to cease admissions twice by the State of Florida
due to widespread abuse and neglect. In April 2007, Manatee Palms instituted a voluntary moratorium on admissions, related to a state investigation into the hiring of staff members with criminal records, insufficient supervision of suicidal patients, and disintegrating physical facilities. Manatee Palms was fined $12,000 by the state, required to make millions of dollars worth of renovations, and to reduce its patient census to zero before reopening in May 2007. In April 2010, Manatee Palms was again ordered to cease admissions due to unsafe conditions and failure to follow administrative procedures.
The facility has also been subject to media attention due to a number of incidents and lawsuits related to accusations that employees engaged in acts of sexual misconduct, employment of a sex offender accused of engaging in sexual misconduct, and accusations that employees used excessive force with patients.
Bradenton, Florida
Bradenton is a city in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's 2007 population to be 53,471. Bradenton is the largest Principal City of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2007 estimated population of 682,833...
, and a subsidiary of for-profit Psychiatric Solutions
Psychiatric Solutions
Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. is a subsidiary of Universal Health Services and operates psychiatric hospitals in 32 states.-History:Joey Jacobs, a former executive of Hospital Corporation of America for over 20 years, founded Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. in 1997...
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The hospital is an Intensive Residential Treatment Facility accredited with the JCAHO and MedicaidMedicaid
Medicaid is the United States health program for certain people and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the state and federal governments, and is managed by the states. People served by Medicaid are U.S. citizens or legal permanent...
. Most of the referrals it receives are from Florida Medicaid. It is a locked institution for male and female patients aged 6–17, with on-campus school and sports facilities. Its specialty populations presently has a children's unit, an adolescent male behavioral unit and a Female Behavioral Unit.
History
The hospital changed hands twice in the decade 2000–2010. In 2000 it passed to Ramsay Youth Services, when the company acquired Charter Behavioral Health Systems of Manatee Palms and the corresponding real estate as a strategic investment. Then in 2003 Ramsay Youth Services was bought by Psychiatric SolutionsPsychiatric Solutions
Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. is a subsidiary of Universal Health Services and operates psychiatric hospitals in 32 states.-History:Joey Jacobs, a former executive of Hospital Corporation of America for over 20 years, founded Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. in 1997...
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In 2008, the late David Guymon (former CEO of Manatee Palms) was awarded the TRAUMA Champion Award by the University of South Florida's
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, recognizing his "commitment to trauma informed care".
Manatee Palms Youth Services has been required to cease admissions twice by the State of Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
due to widespread abuse and neglect. In April 2007, Manatee Palms instituted a voluntary moratorium on admissions, related to a state investigation into the hiring of staff members with criminal records, insufficient supervision of suicidal patients, and disintegrating physical facilities. Manatee Palms was fined $12,000 by the state, required to make millions of dollars worth of renovations, and to reduce its patient census to zero before reopening in May 2007. In April 2010, Manatee Palms was again ordered to cease admissions due to unsafe conditions and failure to follow administrative procedures.
The facility has also been subject to media attention due to a number of incidents and lawsuits related to accusations that employees engaged in acts of sexual misconduct, employment of a sex offender accused of engaging in sexual misconduct, and accusations that employees used excessive force with patients.