ST. PETER — The state employee in charge of the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter has lost his job.
An internal report says there's chronic dysfunction at the mental health facility. The report says Larry TeBrake headed a facility that lacked accountability, in which employees feared for their safety and that too often unstable patients were isolated or restrained because of improper staff training.
TeBrake says he's surprised by the dismissal. He says the number of staff and patient injuries over the past year have declined, as well as the number of seclusion-restraint complaints.
About 750 employees at the hospital care for more than 250 of the state's most violent people. The 54-year-old TeBrake is a 31-year employee at the regional treatment center and received a salary of about $108,000.
