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PublishedOctober 5, 2014
Riverview psychiatric patients, looking for refuge, find isolation instead
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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PublishedSeptember 30, 2014
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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PublishedSeptember 26, 2014
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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PublishedSeptember 25, 2014
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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PublishedSeptember 24, 2014
Maine committee votes to investigate Riverview Psychiatric Center
The Government Accountability Office will examine policies and work culture the hospital, where employees have reported abuse and neglect of patients.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2014
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.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2014
NAMI Maine providing mental health first aid training in Augusta
The National Alliance on Mental Illness Maine is partnering with the Augusta Housing Authority to offer training sessions to landlords and tenants to prevent crises that result in evictions.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2014
At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive
A Telegram investigation of the Augusta facility unearths troubling evidence of a culture of abuse and a staff ill-equipped to cope with the mentally ill.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2014
Riverview chief wants more changes
In an effort to regain federal certification, Jay Harper says physical changes to the interior of Riverview Psychiatric Center are needed.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2014
Wathen calls Riverview operations troubling
The court master cites safety concerns, certification and treatment at the state's psychiatric hospital in a report released Monday.
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