Staff on the forensic unit at Norristown State Hospital gave “stat” — or emergency — injections of psychiatric medication 1,641 times in the 12 months that ended in April 2022, a rate of 24.4 injections for every 1,000 patient days. That rate is more than three times higher than at Torrance State Hospital, the other forensic psychiatric unit in Pennsylvania.
Injected stat medications, May 2021 to April 2022