The city also requested the help of the U.S. inspector general to launch inquiries into the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Administration, as well as the providers that serve the agency. Williams said that she and Mayor Williams had asked the D.C. Between 1990 and today, the city failed to issue a single fine against a company found to have mistreated the retarded.ĭepartment of Human Services Director Jearline F. The actions came after a Washington Post investigation that found 350 documented cases in this decade of abuse and neglect in the city's expensive group home system, as well as financial mismanagement by group home owners poorly monitored by several city agencies. "We believe that the responsible thing to do was to work as we did to get those patients into the right place, and we needed to act decisively, and that's what we've done." "This is something we've been working on for some time," he said. "I ordered patients put in the right facility regardless of what the impact will be on the facility itself," Williams said yesterday. The removal of residents from the homes was one of several steps the District government took yesterday to address problems in the city's group homes for the retarded. Williams yesterday ordered the evacuation of two group homes for the mentally retarded where neglect and life-threatening conditions had been ignored by city officials for years.
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