Baker v. Department of Mental Health for the State

ALOK AHUJA, Judge.

The Department of Mental Health (“DMH”) appeals the Saline County Circuit Court’s judgment reversing DMH’s decision to place Emily Baker on the employee disqualification list for physically abusing a consumer and class II neglect. 1 DMH argues that Baker poured water onto a consumer to control the consumer’s behavior, which constituted maltreatment or mistreatment in a brutal or inhumane manner, and that she also withheld reasonable and necessary services to a consumer by failing to report verbal abuse by another employee, which Baker witnessed. We agree with the circuit…