Grand jury: Psych clinic erred in assault reports

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Officials at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s psychiatric clinic failed to cooperate with police when notified of patient-on-patient assaults, a grand jury said, finding that they apparently misconstrued state and federal medical privacy laws as limiting how much information they can turn over.

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