The nurse who blew the whistle on their alleged failure to follow the law after a pepper-spray incident says she was pressured by Riverview superintendent Jay Harper to not turn in her colleagues.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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Maine committee votes to investigate Riverview Psychiatric Center
The Government Accountability Office will examine policies and work culture the hospital, where employees have reported abuse and neglect of patients.
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Lawmakers to push for investigation of Riverview
Employee accounts of abuse have spurred a movement to deputize the state’s watchdog agency to probe the forensic mental hospital.
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At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive
A Telegram investigation of the Augusta facility unearths troubling evidence of a culture of abuse and a staff ill-equipped to cope with the mentally ill.
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At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive
A Telegram investigation of the Augusta facility unearths troubling evidence of a culture of abuse and a staff ill-equipped to cope with the mentally ill.
Posted inLocal & State, News
At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive
A Telegram investigation of the Augusta facility unearths troubling evidence of a culture of abuse and a staff ill-equipped to cope with the mentally ill.
Posted inLocal & State, News
At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive
A Telegram investigation of the Augusta facility unearths troubling evidence of a culture of abuse and a staff ill-equipped to cope with the mentally ill.
Posted inLocal & State, News
State high court dismisses Trask infant DNR case
With the LePage administration and DHHS agreeing that Aleah Trask’s mother should make do not resuscitate decisions, the court dismissed the case.
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State posts health insurance premiums
Rates will decrease slightly or stay the same on Maine marketplace for individuals.
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LePage reverses position on infant DNR case
Governor’s administration takes the side of the Augusta mother, who doesn’t want a do not resuscitate order for child alleged injured by her father.