Melinda Jakobowski lived most of her 24 years in state psychiatric centers in Connecticut, where she fluctuated from being able to spend some weekends with family members to being so suicidal that she needed two attendants watching her constantly on rotating shifts around the clock.
Late last year, she was transferred from Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown to the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation in Wauchula, Fla. She joined a small group of Connecticut adult psychiatric patients — 27 out of 60,000 inpatients and outpatients — placed in out-of-state facilities. Officials said that these are patients who pose an imminent danger to themselves or others and are not responding to treatment here. Connecticut pays for their care in the outside treatment centers.
In less then six months, Jakobowski was dead.
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Police Probe Death of State Psychiatric Patient in Florida
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These kinds of investigations should occur frequently. Pyschiatric patients are the long forgotten.
The drastic change had to be due to the damn psychotropic drugging!
This isn't the first 'suspicious' death at Florida Institute for Neurological Rehab. nor I guess will it be the last as long as they can pay off the local media, judicial system, politicians and healthcare providers to look the other way. They are known to physically and chemically abuse their patients.
CT and FL -- two bad places to visit.
Melinda was a sweet & caring girl who I will never forget! My heart goes out to her family!!
Its sad but true these things are going on for my son to is at finr and he sees it there at times going on but he has a guardian done there not by my choice and i feel my hands are tied and no one wants to listen or believe what is going what is wrong with this picture..... My son has to live in fear that he might get stabbed or hurt by someone there.......concerned mother.
Another place NOT to leave loved ones is in Wildwood, FL - Arbor Village. I was a stroke patient who was overdosed on medications and the State has twice said it was ok. If your loved one is in a bad facility call the State and ask for him to be moved closer to you with a new Guardian. The closer to Tampa the better.
Read the coronor's report! She died of natural causes. ACHA, DCH, & DOH found nothing wrong. Why are people such band wagon jumpers in the world.
Death by "natural causes" at age 24?! I don't care what psychiatric disorder one has, it will not cause the body to deteriorate to the point of death by natural causes at age 24, unless paired with a physically degenerative disorder (i.e. muscular dystrophy, etc). Please get a clue.
Natural causes at 24 years old? Sure... Sounds logical... You must be an employee.
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