The court master in charge of monitoring the once-decertified mental health facility in Augusta says staffing stability has helped it regain its footing.
Riverview Psychiatric Center
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Former Riverview worker cleared of theft allegation
Ahmad Nejad had been accused of defrauding the state of workers’ compensation payments.
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Riverview patient accused of threatening dad with knife
Mark Gessner, convicted of murder in the 1994 death of a florist in Bath, is being held on $50,000 bail at Two Bridges Regional Jail.
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Augusta’s Riverview Psychiatric Center on track for recertification
The facility’s certification was revoked in 2014, costing the state hospital about $20 million in federal reimbursement money annually.
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Judge allows Eastport man in manslaughter case to go outside Riverview
Hazen McDugald, who was found not criminally responsible for the 2015 death of Maurice Harris, 75, in Eastport, will be allowed in the community for up to six hours with supervision.
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Longtime Riverview patient to get free time off hospital grounds
A judge approved the change in conditions for Donald Beauchene during a hearing Friday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.
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Bangor area man who blinded himself heading to South Carolina treatment center
James N. Staples, 66, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
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Law Court upholds decision to keep man acquitted of murder at Riverview
Donald Beauchene, acquitted of murder by reason of insanity in the 1969 killing of Bernardine Israelson in Portland, has petitioned a number of times for release from the state hospital.
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Riverview patient who blinded himself pleads not criminally responsible to assaulting fellow patient
The judge said there was no place in the Department of Corrections or the mental health system for James Staples, calling that ‘a serious and shameful situation.’
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LePage says site next to Riverview no longer an option for new psychiatric unit
The governor says a new location for the ‘step-down’ facility will be announced next week.