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There has been a recent increase in the adoption of contactless sensing solutions for remote patient monitoring. mmWave radar is a technology that has high potential in this field due it its low cost and protection of privacy; however, it is prone to multipath reflections and other sources of environmental noise. This paper discusses some of the challenges in mmWave remote sensing applications for patient safety in mental health wards. In line with these challenges, we propose a novel low-data solution to mitigate the impact of multipath reflections and other sources of noise in mmWave sensing. Our solution uses an unscented Kalman filter for target tracking over time and analyses features of movement to determine whether targets are human or not. We chose a commercial off-the-shelf radar and compared the accuracy and reliability of sensor measurements before and after applying our solution. Our results show a marked decrease in false positives and false negatives during human target tracking, as well as an improvement in spatial location detection in a two-dimensional space. 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