Youth Hospital Faulted For Abuse / District Begins To Monitor Care
Source: By Jenna Johnson, Washington Post, Thursday, July 26, 2007
Children at Riverside Hospital in Northwest Washington are at risk from "serious and persistent abuse and neglect," according to a report from an advocacy group, leading city mental health officials to start weekly visits to monitor conditions.
The psychiatric hospital for youths up to age 21 stopped accepting new long-term patients last week.
....... There have been previous allegations of abuse at the private, for-profit hospital, including one into the death in December of a teenage resident. In 1997, federal regulators threatened to cut Riverside, which opened in 1995, from the Medicaid program.