The state Supreme Court is supporting a Kanawha Circuit judge's plan to hear allegations of overcrowding at state psychiatric hospitals, The Associated Press reports.
The justices unanimously rejected a bid to block the hearing from the Department of Health and Human Resources.
In doing so, the ruling notes that the phrase "Dickensian squalor,'' used in a 1981 report on state mental health facilities remains apt, AP health care writer Tom Breen observes.
"Despite the DHHR's argument to the contrary, many of the same issues that were present in 1981'' remain present today, the article quotes the ruling as saying, adding that it specifically refers to the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital in Huntington.
10 February 2009
Supreme Court Cites "Dickensian squalor'' at W.Va. Hospitals
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