Tag search result for: Patsy Christian

From gilded frame to golden parachute

mbieseck — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:24:31 -0400

Patsy Christian has a new job.

Christian was forced to step down as director of a state mental hospital in June 2008 after reports that she spent government money intended to help patients to commission an oil painting of herself.

Christian won't face charges for portrait

bkrueger — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:28:40 -0400

The SBI has ended its probe into the purchase of portrait by former state mental hospital director Patsy Christian without action.

The investigation was requested by the state Department of Health and Human Services in June following reports in The News & Observer about a painting of herself that Christian commissioned from J. Lee Harris, a hospital nurse who sidelined as an artist, reports Michael Biesecker.

Christian to help fix Cherry Hospital

bkrueger — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:01:15 -0400

With yet another state mental hospital in danger of losing federal funding following a patient death, Dempsey Benton, head of the state Department of Health and Human Services, has tapped a familiar face to help fix the facility.

Patsy Christian, who was forced to resign in June as director of Central Regional Hospital in Butner after she commissioned a portrait of herself with money intended to benefit patients, was dispatched to Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro Tuesday following a critical report issued by regulators, reports Michael Biesecker.

No results yet on Christian investigation

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:15:28 -0400

Two months after DHHS Secretary Dempsey Benton asked the SBI to review the purchase of a portrait by former hospital director Patsy Christian, there is no word about when agents might wrap up their investigation.

Butner head gets golden parachute

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:46:22 -0400

Patsy Christian has gone from a gilded frame to a golden parachute.

Christian resigned her position last week as director of a new state mental hospital in Butner following N&O reports about a portrait of herself she commissioned with money intended to benefit patients, Michael Biesecker reports.

Umstead Hospital head resigns

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:49:39 -0400

The head of John Umstead Hospital is stepping down.

Patsy Christian, who faced criticism for commissioning a portrait of herself with state money and problems with patient abuse, is resigning as executive director, according to a release from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Serivces.

Benton: State will not pay for painting

bkrueger — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:44:36 -0400

The state will not pay for a portrait of the director of the new Central Regional Hospital in Butner.

Dempsey Benton, head of the state Department of Health and Human Services, announced this afternoon that no state funds will be used to pay for a portrait that a department employee did of her boss, hospital director Patsy Christian.

Director immortalized on patients' dimes

bniolet — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:18:49 -0400

Despite budget cuts and cost overruns at a state mental hospital in Butner, hospital Director Patsy Christian found money to have her portrait made.

Umstead Hospital could lose federal funds

bkrueger — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:31:06 -0500

Hospital investigators have recommended that the state's mental hospital in Butner lose federal money for failure to control patient violence.

A letter from state investigators to the hospital this week said that John Umstead Hospital "failed to prevent repeated incidents of patient to patient and patient to staff abuse," reports Lynn Bonner.