Tag: riverview psychiatric center
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PublishedAugust 15, 2018
Our View: Riverview Psychiatric Center fix should fall to Maine’s next governor
Paul LePage’s half-implemented plan, created in secrecy and largely without stakeholder input, should not be shoehorned through in his final months in office.
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PublishedJune 25, 2018
Riverview social worker who alleged retaliation settles lawsuit
Jennifer Taghavidinani has released all of her claims against the state in exchange for $55,000.
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PublishedApril 16, 2018
Auditor says state shouldn’t spend federal funds on Riverview Psychiatric Center
Auditor Pola Buckley says the state keeps using federal funds on the hospital, which has lost its federal certification, despite facing a $51 million penalty from the federal government for doing so.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2017
Our View: LePage blocks path forward for Riverview
The governor won’t collaborate, and people with mental illness in state care pay the price.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2017
Man committed in 1970 granted unsupervised time outside Riverview
Donald Beauchene, who was acquitted in the 1969 slaying of a woman in Portland by reason of insanity, will be allowed to leave the grounds of the state psychiatric hospital for three to four hours at a time.
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PublishedJune 27, 2017
Court rejects convicted murderer’s bid for release from Riverview
Mark Gessner, originally of Waldoboro, was committed after being found not criminally responsible by reason of insanity for two other crimes that occurred in prison.
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PublishedJune 8, 2017
U.S. demands return of $51 million in federal funds that Maine spent at Riverview
The state was warned that it was improper to use the money after the psychiatric facility was decertified in 2013, an official says, as the loss of funds sparks finger-pointing in Augusta.
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PublishedApril 20, 2017
Our View: What happened to Gov. LePage’s plan to fix Riverview?
Months after he vowed immediate action on a new facility to ease a space shortage at the psychiatric hospital, there’s been little progress.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2017
Maine attorney general says LePage needs Legislature’s approval for psychiatric unit
The governor had sought to build the secure facility in Bangor to avoid legislative oversight, but Janet Mills says his administration can’t bypass legislators no matter what site is chosen.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2017
Lawmakers hear, and express, concerns about LePage plan for forensic psychiatric center
Some say the administration hasn’t told them enough about plans for the facility for people found not criminally responsible because of mental illness.
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