The facility needs significant improvements to its treatment programs, staff behaviors and oversight, members of a state task force told lawmakers Monday.
Members of the CVH Whiting Task Force, residents of Whiting Forensic Hospital and other speakers addressed state lawmakers during a marathon public hearing on Monday regarding proposals to improve the scandal-plagued state psychiatric hospital in Middletown, which cares for people found not guilty of crimes by reason of insanity
Five years after a patient abuse scandal, Connecticut’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital still needs significant improvements to its treatment.
Lawmakers hear calls to improve state psychiatric hospital- HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Five years after a patient abuse scandal, Connecticut’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital still needs significant improvements to its treatment programs, staff behaviors and oversight, members of a state task force told.