This mornings Daily News ran a story about a lawsuit filed against the Kings County Trauma Center. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday by Sidney Hirschfeld – who is the head of Mental Hygiene Legal Service, a state agency – claims that patients are often neglected and abused. 

He claims that the psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital is a shameful “chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger” where patients are subjected to overcrowded conditions, physical abuse and unnecessary injections of mood-altering drugs.

In a statement, Alan Aviles, president of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp., said the claims are irresponsible and unfounded.
(Editor: Why is this different than any other NYC hospital?)