Some state hospital workers in Huntington are demanding better pay and better hours. Mildred Mitchell Bateman Psychiatric Hospital employees claim that they are understaffed and overcrowded. The hospital is only supposed to house 90 patients but contains more than 120. Workers say those conditions are causing them to pull double, even triple shifts. They say they barely have any money to show for it.

A report released this month by the State Office of the Ombudsman for Behavioral Health, states that the hospital is routinely overcrowded. The report described three patients staying in single rooms, often with no bathrooms. It also reported low morale among employees and tension between patients and workers.