Broken Homes: Where Hope Dies. / Clifford J. Levy.
by Levy, Clifford J; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 31Health. Publisher: New York Times, 2002ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Death -- Causes | Investigative reporting | Long-term care facilities | Mental health services | Mentally ill -- Care | Mentally ill -- Housing | New York (New York)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "It was the fall of 2000 and [New York] state inspectors were due to arrive at Seaport Manor, an adult home for the mentally ill in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Upstairs, some of its 325 residents, bewildered and mumbling, shuffled along the dreary hallways. Downstairs, a handful of workers hastily doctored records, they said, to make it seem as if the home was providing proper care. The workers said they concocted case notes for manic-depressives who holed up in their rooms for so long they became malnourished. They invented psychiatric evaluations for residents who went untreated and turned suicidal. They scrawled therapy plans for women who prostituted themselves in the stairwells for cigarette money and for men who shook down other residents for their $4-a-day allowance." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article details the harsh conditions at Seaport and relays that although the facility was dubbed "The New Warehouse for the Insane," records indicate that state officials "did nothing meaningful to improve or police it.".
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Originally Published: Broken Homes: Where Hope Dies, April 29, 2002; pp. A1+.
"It was the fall of 2000 and [New York] state inspectors were due to arrive at Seaport Manor, an adult home for the mentally ill in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Upstairs, some of its 325 residents, bewildered and mumbling, shuffled along the dreary hallways. Downstairs, a handful of workers hastily doctored records, they said, to make it seem as if the home was providing proper care. The workers said they concocted case notes for manic-depressives who holed up in their rooms for so long they became malnourished. They invented psychiatric evaluations for residents who went untreated and turned suicidal. They scrawled therapy plans for women who prostituted themselves in the stairwells for cigarette money and for men who shook down other residents for their $4-a-day allowance." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article details the harsh conditions at Seaport and relays that although the facility was dubbed "The New Warehouse for the Insane," records indicate that state officials "did nothing meaningful to improve or police it.".
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