Talk good, death bad

Yesterday, my partner, an inpatient on a mental health ward, who is "prone to suicidal ideation" and trying to act upon those thoughts, was told by a senior nurse that she must "talk to the staff" because they didn't want "another death" on the ward. 

The advice is sound, but actual disclosure of a patient death can be disconcerting. 

There have been many deaths at the Bradgate. I'm assuming that if it is being talked about at the moment in this way that it is in recent memory (or the inquest was recently held).