AUGUSTA (AP) — Several former and current workers at the state-run Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta are speaking out about what they describe as staff discontent at the facility. Two women who work as social workers at the 92-bed hospital told the Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/1jRuLnY ) they formally complained that they were subject to a […]
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Business office ransacked in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Police are investigating a burglary at Riverview Plumbing & Heating at 3 Bridge St. that occurred between closing on Tuesday and 7:09 a.m. on Wednesday. Someone gained entry by force through a window and ransacked the office area, police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said. Papers and other items were strewn all over […]
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Ex-patient gets 10 years for attacking pregnant worker at hospital
AUGUSTA (AP) — A former patient at the state-run Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking a pregnant mental health worker last year. Mark Murphy was sentenced Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court to serve 10 years of a 15-year sentence, with two years’ probation. Justice Donald […]
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Maine DHHS taps patient advocate to head Riverview Psychiatric Hospital
AUGUSTA – Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew has appointed Robert “Jay” Harper, a veteran of state government, as the acting superintendent at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta. The appointment comes on the heels of Mayhew terminating former Riverview Superintendent Mary Louise McEwen earlier this month for unspecified reasons. Riverview is a […]
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DHHS fires head of Riverview Psychiatric Center
AUGUSTA — Riverview Psychiatric Center Superintendent Mary Louise McEwen has been terminated after five years on the job, according to Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew. “In evaluating where Riverview Psychiatric Center is today and our vision for the hospital moving forward, I felt that a change in leadership gave us the […]
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Riverview Psychiatric Center receives vital accreditation
AUGUSTA — It doesn’t have any bearing on whether the state will recover $20 million in lost federal funding, but state health officials on Monday welcomed news that the troubled Riverview Psychiatric Center had received accreditation from a key national group. The Joint Commission, a nonprofit accrediting organization and standard-bearer recognized throughout the country for […]
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Ex-patient guilty of attack at Riverview hospital
AUGUSTA (AP) — A judge has ruled that a former patient at Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta was prompted by anger and not mental illness when he attacked a worker last year, leaving a pen embedded in her hand. The judge issued an eight-page decision on Thursday, convicting Mark Murphy of elevated aggravated assault, following […]
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Federal judge denies Maine DHHS appeal on Riverview funds
AUGUSTA — A state appeal of a federal government decision to cut about $20 million in funding from the state-run Riverview Psychiatric Center has been denied by a federal judge. That means state lawmakers will now have to wrestle with filling the gap as they head into the second half of the 126th legislative session […]
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Advocates say Riverview fix not working
AUGUSTA — A former chief justice for Maine’s high court told lawmakers Tuesday a bill they passed to resolve safety and funding problems at the state-run Riverview Psychiatric Center did not work. The bill, LD 1515, passed during an emergency session in August and signed by Republican Gov. Paul LePage, expanded the capacity of a […]
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Wathen proposes reopening group homes at Riverview
AUGUSTA — The court master overseeing the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta has suggested reopening group homes on state grounds to relieve a space crunch. Daniel Wathen, a former Maine Supreme Judicial Court chief justice, told a legislative committee Tuesday that even though not every bed is occupied, some of the 53 patients at the […]