Health Center Worker Forges Letters To Patients Saying They Need Lobotomies

By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 24, 2012 6:20PM

A former health care worker employee has been ordered held on $50,000 bond after it was discovered she used stolen letterhead and medical records to forge letters to patients suggesting they get lobotomies.

Michelle Morrison of Elk Grove Village was fired by Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in 2010. She's been charged with sending the letters on stolen hospital letterhead between Feb. 5, 2011, and June 25, 2012, Cook County Sheriff's department spokesman Frank Bilecki told the Sun-Times.

The patients, who received electroshock treatment from the hospital, received letters from Morrison that read the treatments were failures and recommended frontal lobotomies. Some of the letters threatened to expose the patients' conditions to their families. Morrison, who allegedly confessed to the crimes, apparently sent the letters because she wanted to "embarrass" Alexian Brothers.

The Cook County Sheriff's Department is continuing their investigation and more charges may be filed against Morrison.