U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty has imposed a tight deadline on the state of New Hampshire to end the practice of detaining in hospital emergency departments patients involuntarily committed to the mental health system while they wait for.
Federal prosecutors say Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann, a Navy Reserve officer awaiting trial on bribery, money laundering and other federal charges, violated pre-trial conditions of release when he moved from Italy to Germany in September without their permission.
New Hampshire’s practice of temporarily boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency departments is an illegal seizure of the hospitals’ property that disrupts care for other patients in need, a federal judge has ruled.In an order issued Feb..
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