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Glenwood Tops Care Facilities In State Fines
(Des Moines Register)
September 8, 2009
GLENWOOD, IOWA– [Excerpt] A state-run home for the disabled has racked up more state fines over the past year than any other Iowa care facility.
Between July 2008 and July 2009, the Glenwood Resource Center was fined $52,500 for inadequate resident care – more than any of the 710 other care facilities, public and private, in Iowa.
The home is managed by the Iowa Department of Human Services, the agency that is largely responsible for serving and protecting the disabled.
Another DHS-managed facility has racked up the third-highest set of fines over the past year – the Woodward Resource Center, Glenwood’s central-Iowa sister facility. Woodward was recently cited for leaving a disabled resident strapped to a toilet for 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, Gov. Chet Culver’s office has refused to make public a draft copy of a report from an independent consultant on the conditions at Glenwood, which has been under federal scrutiny for a decade.
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Glenwood tops care facilities in state fines
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