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Fifty deaths, few consequences: Inside Minnesota’s group home industry

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By Ellie Roth, Jennifer Lu, Christopher Peak
| MPR News (Saint Paul, MN) Verified
Quick Read The death of Ryan Riggs last year led a state investigator to conclude Riggs' group home had neglected his needs. His death and the neglect finding devastated his family. For the state’s fast-growing group home industry, it was part of a troubling pattern. Ryan Riggs died alone by a chain link fence in the backyard of the group home that was paid to take care of him.
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Group homes licensed by the Health Department drive growth — and problems — in Brooklyn Park

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By Ellie Roth, Jennifer Lu, Christopher Peak
| MPR News (Saint Paul, MN) Verified
The explosive growth of the group home industry in the northwestern suburbs of the Twin Cities is being driven largely by a relatively new licensing system overseen by the Minnesota Department of Health. And in Brooklyn Park, which has more group homes than any other city in Minnesota, those Health Department-licensed facilities appear to be responsible for an outsize number of the police calls that the city says are overwhelming its first responders.
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Deaths, neglect, calls for help: Group home boom overwhelms Brooklyn Park

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By Ellie Roth, Jennifer Lu, Christopher Peak
| MPR News (Saint Paul, MN) Verified
Officer Jessica Heinzen heard the call come in from Brooklyn Park dispatch about a man “likely on drugs” threatening his roommates. She recognized the man’s name and the address of the group home where he lived, and she was not surprised. Arriving at the house, a group home worker told her the man had walked off after acting erratically for days. His case manager recently quit and he was skipping his antipsychotics for street drugs, the worker explained.
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