During a meeting meant to address safety gaps in New Hampshire’s disability care system, a group of care providers said they believe the state doesn’t have enough investigators looking into abuse and neglect. “There’s too few investigators,” Michelle Donovan, the New Hampshire director for the care agency Living Innovations, said. “Quite frankly, there’s not enough […]

After the New Hampshire Senate passed a bipartisan bill aimed at strengthening oversight of care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state, the House is preparing to vote on the legislation, which was introduced as a response to reports of abuse, neglect, and untimely deaths. The bill targets the state’s developmental disability […]

Following high-profile reports of abuse, neglect, and untimely deaths, a bipartisan group of New Hampshire state senators have proposed legislation aimed at protecting people with disabilities in state care from future abuse and neglect. “This is a very vulnerable community, some of the most vulnerable people that are living amongst us,” Sen. David Rochefort, a […]

A state committee tasked with evaluating New Hampshire’s disability care system has launched a formal review and scheduled a series of public meetings to discuss the system in the wake of reports of systemic abuse and neglect. In New Hampshire, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are entitled to care services paid for and overseen […]

State Sen. David Rochefort, a Littleton Republican, said he and the state’s legislative staff are in the process of drafting a bill aimed at addressing systemic abuse and neglect issues in New Hampshire intellectual and developmental disability care system. In November, the Bulletin published a series of articles outlining abuse and neglect — sometimes fatal […]