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"Bacterial/Viral Coinfections";
TLR2 (fungi)Signaling Depletes IRAK1 and Inhibits Induction of Type 1 by TLR7/9 (viruses)-- -CV Harding, 2012 (More in the chart at the bottom of this homepage)
"Multiple Mechanisms of Immune Suppression by B Lymphocytes" (New and Trashes Yale and IDSA)
NIH's Treatment Recommendations for Chronic Active Epstein-Borreliosis, the chronic illness also induced by OspA vaccination or exposure to molds.
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2000) re:
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http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctcvh0201.artfeb01,0,6896237.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
U.S. Probes Psychiatric Hospital Investigation Focuses On State's Treatment Of Patients At CVH; Inspection Set In March By JOSH KOVNER Courant Staff Writer February 1 2006 MIDDLETOWN -- The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the state's largest public psychiatric hospital protects patients from harm and uses seclusion and physical restraints properly. The Justice Department's civil rights division began an investigation of Connecticut Valley Hospital on Dec. 15, and federal investigators will inspect the Middletown campus in mid-March. Wayne Dailey, spokesman for the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, acknowledged Wednesday that the visit was "not routine." Sweeping management changes were made at CVH and its Whiting Forensic Division in November. Dailey said those changes were in the works for more than two months, before state officials learned of the federal investigation. Eric Holland, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to comment on the probe Tuesday. The division, under the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act, investigates substantial complaints and potentially illegal conditions inside mental-health centers, jails, nursing homes, juvenile facilities and other institutions. A source at CVH said a Justice Department official in the civil rights division asked questions in November about suicides at CVH in 2003 and 2004. The hospital had been staggered by three suicides in a 15-month period, including two in 10 weeks. An investigation by the state Department of Public Health found that serious breakdowns in basic nursing preceded two of the suicides. In those cases, nurses failed to respond to telltale behavior by two patients with a history of suicide attempts. One of the nurses was a "traveling nurse," a temporary employee who had been found incompetent at her job but was still placed in a supervisory position. The hospital made a series of changes after the suicides, including increasing training and installing suicide-proof shower heads in one of the units, but patient advocates said the suicides were "arguably preventable." Last September, the family of one of the suicide victims, Joseph Sawyer, 21, who died at Whiting, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state. The suit alleges flawed policies and negligence and inadequate training on the part of some staff members. A month before Sawyer hanged himself in his room at Whiting, he had attempted suicide in a similar manner in the same room. The state Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities investigated Sawyer's death and found evidence of neglect in Sawyer's treatment at Whiting. In 2004, the family of James Bell, a former patient at Whiting who died of a heart attack while in restraints in 2002, filed a $4 million lawsuit against Whiting and CVH. A division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had cited CVH in 2001 for several instances of improper use of restraints. This past November, a 36-year-old male patient at CVH was charged with first-degree sexual assault and unlawful restraint in an attack on another patient in Merritt Hall, a substance-abuse treatment and general psychiatry unit at CVH. Four days after the rape was reported, state mental health officials announced that CVH's chief executive officer, Garrell S. Mullaney, was retiring; its chief operating officer, Michael Niman, was being reassigned; and the director of Whiting Forensic, Richard Bennett, had "resigned in good standing." Dailey reiterated Tuesday that the management changes had nothing to do with the sexual assault, the suicides, or any other incident, and he praised Mullaney's stewardship of CVH. Mullaney, a former U.S. Marine and a former prison warden, had presided over improvements in the relationship between CVH and its host city of Middletown. He intends to retire at the end of this year and has taken a post as project director for facility design in the office of Mental Health Commissioner Thomas Kirk. Dailey said state mental health officials were told by the federal investigators that they were reviewing "whether there have been systemic problems regarding the protection of patients from harm and the use of seclusion and restraints. "We don't know specifically what triggered their interest; they haven't given us that information," said Dailey. "They did tell us they have not formed any conclusions." After the management shake-up, "the facility is in a state of holding its breath. There's a sense there's going to be major changes," said Susan Aronoff, a lawyer with the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, a patient advocacy group based on the CVH campus. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant |