Signature Health patient sentenced to 11 years in prison for stabbing clinician in neck

On Tuesday, a 24-year-old patient at Signature Health in Maple Heights was sentenced to 11 years in prison for stabbing a clinician in the neck earlier this year.

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In April, the Maple Heights Police Department was dispatched to Signature Health after the 49-year-old clinician was stabbed by a patient while they were in a closed room together.

Police said the victim ran away from the patient after he was stabbed, but the patient then began chasing the employee and allegedly continued attacking him.

Other employees then intervened by throwing a chair to slow the patient down, until facility security confronted the attacker at gunpoint and subdued him until police arrived, police said.

The 24-year-old patient was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, and the clinician was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.