Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/2/2024
As the summer wore on, Sutton saw no signs that conditions inside the mostly Medicaid-funded facility were improving. Meanwhile, local first responders were getting overwhelmed.
"I said to them, 'I'm going to have to start making these reports to the state,'" she said.
Sutton filed two complaints with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services in July, and a third in September. She wasn’t alone: The state received seven other complaints about the facility in 2022, after sorting through 18 others since 2019.
By October 2022, the state had finished its investigation. The report was 97 pages long.
