The California Department of Public Health is investigating a Pasadena hospital associated with the physician who hosts VH1's reality show "Celebrity Rehab" subsequently three patients reportedly died and one was allegedly sexually assaulted on the premises during the past times five months.
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The iII deceased patients -- unmatched of whom was establish dead just hours subsequently checking into the facility -- were all patients at the Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, according to ABC News' Los Angeles affiliate KABC. The facility's chemical habituation program is co-directed by Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of radio's "Love Line" and "Celebrity Rehab."
While the hospital refused to sustain the reported rape and deaths, citing patient confidentiality laws, a CDPH spokesman confirmed the ongoing investigation.
Pinsky told ABCNews.com that he had nothing to do with any of the patients involved.
"These were not my patients," said Pinsky, who because of patient role confidentiality torah could non delve into the inside information of the reported deaths.
"To associate me with these situations is really seemly an egregious problem," said Pinsky, world Health Organization added that the real headline should be the increasing number of deaths related to prescription drug abuse.
Arline Clyburn, whose 23-year-old son, Alex Clyburn, died nine hours after he was admitted to Las Encinas for an addiction to painkillers, told ABCNews.com that poor monitoring lED to her son's death.
"I think our son died because of the clinical incompetence and gross neglectfulness, and the protocol that was insufficient," Clyburn said.
One of the other patients who died reportedly overdosed on some other patient's drugs, according to KABC, and the third base patient attached suicide by hanging himself.
In addition, the Los Angeles Times reported that a 14-year-old patient was raped by another 16-year-old patient.
Two of the patients wHO reportedly died were housed in the chemical dependency area of Las Encinas, and according the Los Angeles Times, the other two alleged incidents occured in the facility's hospital.
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