COALITION AGAINST INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILD ABUSE
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1998

Thirteen-year-old Chris Campbell received treatment at the Mental Health Institute for psychiatric problems, including uncontrolled rages — until the state’s private managed-care provider intervened. Merit Behavioral Care Corp. refused to pay for Campbell’s care at the Mental Health Institute, claiming it was unnecessary and too expensive. Instead, the youth was forced into an institution for juvenile delinquents.

On Nov. 2, 1997, while in the Iowa Juvenile Home, young Campbell went into a rage. While under restraint, he died. The teenager had a long history of heart trouble as well as mental illness.

Campbell’s parents say the youngster would not have died if Merit Behavioral Care Corp. had not refused to pay for his care in a psychiatric setting. They joined with UE members on Feb. 4 to demand an investigation of Merit as well as a broader probe of privatization in Iowa.

"Something has got to be done when children are turned away from the help they need," said mother Ellen "Pat" Campbell. "We want people to be aware about what Merit is putting our children through."

Together with the UE members, many of whom are employed in state social services, Pat and John Campbell declared that the state should not provide mental health services through an outside provider that depends on the bottom line.

And Merit’s corporate officers, declared UE Political Action Dir. Chris Townsend, are "Wall Street squeeze artists."

 

 
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