![]() DRWV has been in contact with the Justice Department regarding its allegations and the U.S. It raises the question: why are these patients institutionalized and not placed in the community?”įolio said that DRWV will send a letter to DHHR to preserve all documents and electronic communications, accusing officials of showing preferential treatment to state-operated facilities. “There’s just mismanagement of resources. “For the amount of money that DHHR is spending to warehouse IDD patients, we could buy roughly 150 homes,” Folio said. That violates federal law.”Īccording to Folio, about 88 IDD patients are institutionalized in DHHR facilities at an estimated cost of $20 million, or $310,000 per patient per year. That’s not how the system is supposed to operate. “I’m not saying they’re telling all employees to do this, but you have a relative senior nurse telling you they can’t give you information when we’re there asking about staffing. “The more we dig into this, the more we see a pattern, a practice, a custom, a habit of concealing information, withholding information, trying to mischaracterize information,” Folio said. “You need to send the request to Secretary Couch, April Robertson (DHHR general counsel) and Allen Campbell (general counsel for the state Health Care Authority) to review.” “If you receive a request from Disability Rights of West Virginia requesting information, don’t provide a response,” Lusk wrote. 7 by Shevona Lusk, the chief operating officer for DHHR’s Office of Health Facilities, also told staff not to provide information to DRWV until vetted by staff attorneys. Those informants said Sharpe employees were told not to talk to DRWV staff. Folio and other DRWV staff were in Weston last week meeting with employees of Sharpe.
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