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A year and a half after a task force called for drastic changes at Connecticut's public psychiatric hospitals, staffing levels remain roughly the same at both facilities, state data shows, and advocat...
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The younger Shehadi’s fight is not over. Whether he can help his brother finally leave the hospital he entered more than 25 years ago or not, he wants to change the system that has kept him there all these years.
State Sen. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor and co-chair of the Public Health Committee, said the William Shehadi Jr. case is the reason legislators were committed to reforming practices at Whiting.
The bill is meant to address systemic issues raised by the abuse of patient William Shehadi, Jr.
Lawsuits involve patient abuse at Whiting Forensic Hospital and hepatitis C in the state’s correctional facilities.