Future imperfect
From Joe G.:
The words on September 3, 2002:The recovery-oriented service system shall be notable for its quality.
-- Excerpted from [Connecticut DMHAS] Commissioner’s Policy Statement No. 83, Promoting a Recovery-Oriented Service System, September 3, 2002.The deeds as of today:
The Department of Justice report [on CT's largest state run psychiatric hospital, Connecticut Valley Hospital], obtained Tuesday, follows the agency's 20-month investigation into Connecticut's oldest, largest state-run psychiatric hospital. It concludes that suicide risk remains high, that patients are restrained as a "first resort" and as a "convenience" for staff, that one shift doesn't talk to another about high-risk patients, and that treatment practices are often "grossly inadequate.
-- Excerpted from U.S. Report Blasts CVH, Hartford Courant, August 15, 2007.
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In other words, its much worse than prisons in the area? I'm wondering how people in such acute emotional distress that they are labeled as having psychiatric disorders could be helped by being imprisoned in such a place for "help?" Georgia's psych hospitals are also in trouble: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/08/13/mental_0814.html
Posted by: Sally | August 15, 2007 03:04 PM