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The Department of Justice should investigate four of the nation’s biggest operators of youth residential treatment facilities for civil rights violations and fraud, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., argued Wednesday in letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., led a two-year probe into residential treatment facilities for at-risk youth. Wyden said these were clear violations of federal Medicaid rules prohibiting residential treatment facilities from restraining children to discipline them, and from simultaneously restraining and secluding children. Acadia and UHS have both paid multimillion-dollar settlements in recent years to resolve DOJ probes into their hospitals and psychiatric centers. However, those cases did not focus on youth facilities run by the companies, which Wyden is asking the DOJ to investigate.

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☆ New York Democrats are worried about Tuesday’s special election. They have good reason to be
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Gregory Krieg | Veronica Stracqualursi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

But as the special election to succeed the disgraced former congressman has made painfully clear to Democrats, Santos’ victory was not a fluke or anomaly. (Less so 40 years ago, when Republicans ran roughshod here and Ronald Reagan alluded to Nassau County as a Republican’s idea of heaven.) Nassau County in 2024 is sharply divided and – in a word – angry. The year before, Democrat Laura Curran, the top official in Nassau County, was ousted by Republican Bruce Blakeman. But more liberal New York Democrats often point to the current problems as Cuomo’s legacy.

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WHAT ARE LOCAL ‘CRIME-FREE’ OR ‘NUISANCE’ ORDINANCES? Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesAnti-crime and nuisance ordinances have been around for years and are widespread in their usage. More than 2,000 cities nationwide have enacted such policies since the 1990s, according to the Chicago-based Shriver Center on Poverty Law. Critical studies and lawsuits indicate enforcement of nuisance laws frequently occur in poorer neighborhoods and communities of color. Other area cities have rewritten their ordinances, including Faribault in 2022 as it agreed to pay $685,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over the law.

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☆ U.S. Watchdog Halts Studies at N.Y. Psychiatric Center After a Subject’s Suicide
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Ellen Barry | More About Ellen Barry | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Federal regulators have suspended research on human subjects at the Columbia-affiliated New York State Psychiatric Institute, one of the country’s oldest research centers, as they investigate safety protocols across the institute after the suicide of a research participant. The decision affected 417 studies, of which 198 have continuing participation. Of those, 124 receive federal funding. It is unusual for the U.S. regulatory office to suspend research, and this suggests that investigators are concerned that potential violations of safety protocols occurred more broadly within the institute. Almost 500 studies, with combined budgets totaling $86 million, are underway at the institute, according to its website.

Persons: Kate Migliaccio, “, Carla Cantor Organizations: Columbia, New, Psychiatric Institute, U.S . Department of Health, Human Services, Human

☆ He Was Handcuffed and Hospitalized. Now He’s on Track for Housing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Andy Newman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If the hospital would not help the patient, damaging that trust did not seem worth it. “If you’re going to forcibly take away somebody’s rights and take them to the hospital against their will, you want to make sure you’re not making the situation worse,” Mr. Auwarter said. BronxWorks sent its first person to the hospital under the mayor’s directive on Christmas night, when the wind chill was 12 degrees. Outreach workers at an elevated subway station approached a woman in her 60s who had refused to talk to them for five years. Her legs were covered with ulcers and so swollen she could not get socks on, and one foot was bare.

Persons: ”, Mitchell Katz, ” Mr, Auwarter, BronxWorks, Jacobi, Olivia Cooley, ’ Organizations: Psychiatric Center

☆ Mental Illness Shouldn’t Be Kept Out of Sight
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Jay Neugeboren | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Because our parents had bailed out on him early on and retired to Florida, I was his caretaker and advocate during these years. His first major psychotic breakdown occurred when he was 19. By the time he was hospitalized at the Bronx Psychiatric Center, formerly known as Bronx State Hospital, in 1997, it was the consensus of the staff there that he would probably have to live in a state hospital for the rest of his life. But Dr. Alvin Pam, the director of psychology at Bronx State, disagreed, and within a year of treatment under his direction, a seeming miracle occurred. In perhaps the clearest sign of his improved mental health, his sense of humor returned.

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