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Problems at Maine’s Riverview Psychiatric Center spur inspection
By pressherald.com- Betty Adams
Published: 09/09/2014

AUGUSTA — Safety and treatment concerns at Riverview Psychiatric Center are bringing an inspection by the court master who oversees a consent decree governing how the state must treat those with mental illness.

Court Master Daniel Wathen, a former chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, laid out plans for the visit in his latest progress report on how the state is complying – or failing to comply – with requirements of that decree.

“To be fair, the current operation of Riverview Psychiatric Center can only be characterized as troubling,” Wathen said in the report made public Monday.

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