On Monday, the Washington State Department of Health issued a Notice of Intent to suspend Daybreak Spokane's licenses.

The notice said the facility's administrators have not been cooperative with investigations surrounding employee-client misconduct.

Clients allege the employee engaged in “slut-shaming” them about their clothes, and when grievances were filed, the employee allegedly retaliated and bullied the female teenage clients.

The notice states daybreak now has seven days - if they appeal, to submit a closure plan, to relocate patients, and transfer their medical records.

Daybreak's CEO, Thomas Russell, says the employee accused of misconduct is no longer employed, but did not answer when asked if Daybreak was planning to take action against this employee when the alleged allegations took place.

"I don't make it a practice of taking about private employee matters. I don't think it respects them or the process that's why we focus on processes we have in place," Russell said.

The Washington State Department of Health says it intends to suspend daybreak's licenses, due to allegations of staff member misconduct, and Daybreak's unwillingness to cooperate with state investigations.

Daybreak's CEO denied these claims.

"We do not have any idea because Daybreak has always been very responsive to the Department of Health, and particularly regarding this issue, we have made repeated requests to the department of health for meetings with them, and we have had no response to that. We wanted to clarify such things as scheduling, interviews, documents if they needed clarification on those", Russell said.  

State investigations say otherwise.

The notice says Daybreak cooperated with the investigation for the first two months but stopped in May.

They say Daybreak also didn't hand the state client records, supervision notes or grievances as requested. 

Russell said they provided over 2,500 pages of material in response to the state's initial request.

But the state says instead of providing the complete client records as requested, Daybreak only provided records they deemed were relevant to the state.

Daybreak has 28 days to request a hearing on this license suspension. Russell says they plan to appeal by the end of the week.

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