Intervention was needed
Frontier Behavioral Health Chief Executive Officer Jeff Thomas said (Aug. 31) there isn’t much anyone can do to force someone to take medications if they’re not a danger to themselves or others. A decent therapist should be able to tell, regardless of how vague and evasive the patient, if a client is a danger to themselves and/or others before it is too late.
When someone starts setting fires on the side of their apartment, they are a danger to others. At the very least, Frontier should’ve stepped in and started the appropriate mental health interventions. I’m sorry for this family’s loss, and I hope Frontier has learned a valuable lesson from all of this.
Alice Hale
Spokane