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	Safety Issues Cited at MD. Hospital for Clergy WJZ March 14, 2009 http://wjz.com/local/safety.issues.hospital.2.959256.html A Silver Spring psychiatric hospital that treats Catholic clergy has been cited for safety issues. A report by Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says that St. Luke Institute did not have enough staff to monitor high-risk patients, poorly stored medicines and left suicidal patients in unsafe areas, among other findings. State health officials investigated the hospital after a patient drowned himself there in January. St. Luke sees some 600 people annually, most of them priests and nuns. Its president, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, says the facility is not meant to treat suicidal patients. He says staff members are instructed to send such patients to another hospital. Rossetti says St. Luke has developed a plan to address its problems.
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