Monash Health pleads guilty over patient death

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Monash Health pleads guilty over patient death

Monash Health has pleaded guilty to a workplace safety charge over the suicide of a mental-health patient at Casey Hospital, Berwick in 2015. In pleading on 6 May, the health service accepted an earlier sentence indication in the Victorian County Court of a non-conviction and a fine no more than $160,000. Prosecutor Duncan Chisholm told the court that Rebecca Victoria Poke was found unresponsive on 31 August 2015 in a visitors toilet, which ha…