September 03, 2008
State agrees to moving of Western State patient
The state’s commissioner of mental health yesterday agreed to develop a plan to transfer a longtime mental patient who has been held in various forms of seclusion and restraint since 1986 in a state mental hospital.August 29, 2008
Western State patient-care case ruling expected next week
The state’s commissioner of mental health faces a rare decision next week in which he must choose whether to uphold major revisions in a controversial mental patient’s care.July 31, 2008
Western State director details isolation
The director of Western State Hospital has told a state oversight committee that he needs more time to work with a mental patient who’s been kept restrained or secluded for much of his 22 years in the hospital.July 11, 2008
Wastern State patient’s rights considered
Panel hears case of César Chumil, who has been kept in confinement for 15 yearsJuly 10, 2008
Views vary over man’s treatment: An in-depth look at the Western State patient
By Bill McKelway, Media General News ServiceJune 14, 2008
New philosophy means new facility at Western State
Staff, patients adapting to ‘psycho-social rehabilitation’ treatment modelJune 06, 2008
Feds investigated case of secluded Western State patient 10 years ago
A Western State Hospital mental patient who has been kept in seclusion or restraints for some 20 years was singled out a decade ago in federal investigations of the Staunton facility and in other reports on the hospital’s shortcomings.June 05, 2008
Board says hospital is in violation
A citizens’ board for Western State Hospital has determined that the facility has repeatedly violated the law for its treatment of a mentally ill patient who speaks little English.Page 1 of 1 pages
