MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont lawmakers
are being briefed on the deaths of two vulnerable Vermonters: an 80-year-old
man who the group Disability Rights Vermont says died after neglect both by his
son and the state, and a patient who died at the Brattleboro Retreat
psychiatric hospital in January.
Disability Rights Vermont says the
unidentified 80-year-old died at a Lyndonville nursing home in October, more
than seven months after the state Division of Adult Protective Services first
got a report the man, who had been living at home with his son, was being
neglected.
Susan Wehry, commissioner of the state
department that includes Adult Protective Services, says the division has been
making progress on correcting long-standing problems.
Retreat CEO Robert Simpson apologized to lawmakers for not
providing them information about the death there earlier.
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