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| Disability Law Group Urges Changes, Receivership For Bridgewater State Hospital |
| By wbur.org- Katie Lannan |
| Published: 06/28/2016 |
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After an investigation into a Bridgewater State Hospital patient's suicide, the Disability Law Center is calling for the facility to be placed into receivership and for state officials to develop a long-term plan that would transfer control of the hospital to the Department of Mental Health from the Department of Correction. The center on Monday issued its report into the April 8 death of Leo Marino, a Lawrence man with a history of suicide attempts who killed himself by ingesting large quantities of toilet paper while in isolation at Bridgewater, according to the report. The report describes Bridgewater State Hospital as "an institution being asked to do the impossible: to provide hospital level care in an understaffed, underfunded, antiquated facility that is not a hospital, but a prison charged with providing a therapeutic, healing milieu in an institution run by the Department of Corrections instead of the Department of Mental Health." Read More. |
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