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PublishedDecember 9, 2016
New House speaker, LePage agree to resolve impasse on forensic psychiatric center
Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, says a meeting with the governor was productive and led to a plan for moving forward in the coming weeks.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2016
Democrats again block LePage’s bid for new psychiatric facility for forensic patients
Lawmakers agree that Maine needs more treatment space for the mentally ill, but Democratic leaders want a public review
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PublishedDecember 6, 2016
LePage says unit for forensic mental-health patients may be built in Freeport
He says the secure treatment facility also could be located 'down south' or in the Bangor area so Democrats can't block it under an obscure law affecting construction on state grounds in Augusta.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2016
Lawmakers say DHHS plan to build a forensic unit at Riverview lacks clarity
The plan for the 21-bed unit for patients who have committed crimes is aimed at regaining federal certification for the state psychiatric hospital and the $20 million in annual funding that goes with it.
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PublishedJune 14, 2016
Riverview patient fined for four assaults at state hospital
On Tuesday, Arlene Edson pleaded guilty to the assaults, which occurred Nov. 27-Dec. 11, 2014, and whose victims included police officers and a maintenance worker.
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PublishedJune 1, 2016
Riverview Psychiatric Center fires nursing director
The state mental hospital in Augusta has had a number of administrative changes recently, including a change at the very top with a new superintendent.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2015
Judge praises progress at Maine’s Riverview Psychiatric Center
During a hearing on a 1990 consent decree involving former AMHI patients, hospital officials describe a new approach to integrating patients committed through Maine's criminal justice system.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2015
Riverview patient sentenced for rampage at state hospital
Charles Miles will be on probation at the state hospital after not contesting charges of causing more than $1,000 of property damage at Riverview.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2015
Riverview patient pleads guilty to assaulting worker
Arlene Edson will serve 18 months in prison for hitting the woman repeatedly in the head in December.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2015
Bill would expand mental health crisis training to all Maine police departments
A proposal from Rep. Richard Malaby, R-Hancock, would mandate the use of crisis intervention training by 2017.
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