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Department of Children and Families issues report on future of Riverview Hospital in Middletown. Report presents a ten-step plan to improve delivery of inpatient services. Inpatient hospital units will be reduced from 8 to 6, and six lower-level specialized units will be established.
Department of Children and Families issues report on future of Riverview Hospital in Middletown. Report presents a ten-step plan to improve delivery of inpatient services. Inpatient hospital units will be reduced from 8 to 6, and six lower-level specialized units will be established.
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Department of Children and Families issues report on future of Riverview Hospital in Middletown. Report presents a ten-step plan to improve delivery of inpatient services. Inpatient hospital units will be reduced from 8 to 6, and six lower-level specialized units will be established.
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Joette Katz Dannel P. Malloy Commissioner Governor
For Immediate Release Contact: Gary Kleeblatt April 14, 2011 Office: 860‐550‐6305 Pager: 860‐260‐0940
Department Issues “Future of Riverview” Report to Governor and CT General Assembly
DCF to Consolidate Children’s Inpatient Hospital with CT Children's Place
HARTFORD ‐‐ The Department of Children and Families today issued a report to the Governor and the Connecticut General Assembly concerning the future of Riverview Hospital in Middletown, which is Connecticut's only state‐run psychiatric hospital for children and youth.
The report, required under legislation enacted last year, presents a ten‐step plan to improve the delivery of inpatient services for children and youth with complex mental health and behavioral needs.
Step 1 in the report is the administrative consolidation of Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth with the department’s other behavioral health institution, Connecticut Children’s Place.
Inpatient hospital units will be reduced from 8 to 6, and six lower‐level specialized units will be established by reallocating existing resources from the two institutions. It is expected that some cost savings will accrue over time.
Other steps outlined in the report align the institutions with changes already underway within the Department of Children and Families. These include removal of service silos and strengthening regional and community services.
The Department has also established a new Academy for Workforce Knowledge and Development with a focus on strengthening and supporting families and expanding trauma‐ informed practices by the agency’s workforce.
DCF Commissioner Joette Katz said the report – developed through a collaborative leadership process ‐‐ is an important step in creating a more effective and efficient department. The report includes accountability benchmarks for the period April through October 2011 when a 2nd report will be presented outlining implementation actions.
The team, tasked with creating the 10‐step plan that included USD II and clinical staff from the facility as well as representatives from the Office of the Child Advocate, was led by Deputy Commissioner, Dr. Janice Gruendel, who remarked on two areas of key learning in the process.
First, the same groups of youngsters whose complex mental health and behavioral needs were not being met in 1989 are still waiting for the development of a proper continuum of in‐state treatment.
Second, despite the complexity and great need of youngsters served at Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth now, many were able to return to their families with supports.
Please click on the link below to access the Riverview Report, which has been summarized over this week on the Commissioners’ Corner blog, accessible from the agency’s homepage.