A damning picture has emerged of the Swanston Centre, a Geelong psychiatric hospital where a homicide eventually occurred — but not before years of alarm-raising by staff went unheeded. A psychiatrist who was attacked by a patient on only her second day at the facility has spoken out, saying both staff and patients were “let down by years of inaction.” The revelations point to systemic failures in the management and resourcing of psychiatric care facilities, and raise uncomfortable questions about how many warnings need to be sounded before authorities act.
Years of Warnings Preceded Psychiatric Hospital Homicide
