The Augusta-based facility has relied on the use of seclusion and restraints at comparatively high rates, even as national experts have discredited the methods as harmful to mental health.
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Maine won’t reveal school district of child with enterovirus
Anyone who would have been infected by the child would already have been sick, says the head of Maine’s CDC.
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Maine’s major hospitals have emergency plans to address Ebola
With a case in Texas already confirmed, officials here have received federal guidance and made plans for anyone with the virus.
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Legislative committee says Riverview’s response too little
Hospital acting superintendent Jay Harper did not attend the meeting, leaving lawmakers to work from written responses to questions.
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Franklin Community Health Network’s last year marked by challenges, successes
The Farmington-based network says a partnership with Portland-based MaineHealth should help it on the path to solvency in the coming year.
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Panel weighs action against Riverview nurses
The nurse who blew the whistle on their alleged failure to follow the law after a pepper-spray incident says she was pressured by Riverview superintendent Jay Harper to not turn in her colleagues.
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Democrats knock LePage for problems at Riverview Psychiatric Center
The administration fought back, saying Democrats were using people with mental illness to advance their agenda.
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UMF to hold Ebola round table Friday
The Friday afternoon discussion includes university experts who will talk about the social, economic and political implications of the epidemic.
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Waterville-, Newport-based health centers receive federal grants
The Affordable Care Act funding is for new staff members, more business hours and expanded services at the health centers.
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Lawmakers to push for investigation of Riverview
Employee accounts of abuse have spurred a movement to deputize the state’s watchdog agency to probe the forensic mental hospital.