Report: Clinic treats brain-damaged patients ‘like garbage’

Published May 20, 2008 4:00am ET



Brain-damaged D.C. kids and adults are being “treated like garbage” in a Florida clinic that takes in tens of millions of public dollars, a scathing new report found.

The University Legal Services report paints a grim picture of the lives of D.C. residents shipped off to the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation. Patients there showed scars from “horseplay” with staff, are routinely slammed to the ground by staff, locked away in their rooms for days at a time and illegally doped up with high-powered drugs.

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