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CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (AP) — The grandmother of a West Tennessee teen who died shortly after being released from a Dickson County drug rehabilitation center has filed a lawsuit. According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/UwbCbR ), the $14.5 million lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the New Life Lodge in Burns. In it, Charity...

Lawsuit filed against drug rehab center in death

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CHARLOTTE, TENN. — The grandmother of a West Tennessee teen who died shortly after being released from a Dickson County drug rehabilitation center has filed a lawsuit. According to The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/UwbCbR ), the $14.5 million lawsuit was filed Wednesday against the New Life Lodge in Burns. In it, Charity...

Forest to Acquire U.S. Marketing Rights to Saphris® (asenapine) from Merck (Forest Laboratories Inc)

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(Source: Forest Laboratories Inc) Forest acquires exclusive rights to Saphris® in the United States for the treatment of schizophrenia and acute bipolar mania in adults for $240 million plus sales-based milestones and on-going supply payments Saphris is complementary to Forest's existing CNS franchise and commercial infrastructure Agreement is expected to be immediately accretive to Forest NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forest Laboratories Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:FRX) today announced that the company is acquiring exclusive rights in the United States for Saphris® (asenapine) sublingual tablets, a treatment for adult patients with...

Lawsuit against Dickson Co. drug rehab center settled

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CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (AP) - A lawsuit filed over a death at New Life Lodge rehabilitation center has been settled. The Tennessean reports terms of the...

Forest to Acquire U.S. Marketing Rights to Saphris® (asenapine) from Merck

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forest Laboratories Holdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:FRX) today announced that the company is acquiring exclusive rights in the United States for Saphris® (asenapine) sublingual tablets, a treatment for adult patients with schizophrenia or acute bipolar mania, from Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK). Under the terms of the agreement, Forest will make an upfront payment of $240 million and additional payments to Merck based on defined sales milestones. Merck will remain responsible for product supply. Forest will assume responsibility for continued...

Schering-Plough Reports Data From SAPHRIS(R) (asenapine) Long-Term Schizophrenia Relapse Prevention Study

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Findings from 52-week study presented at major European psychiatry congress demonstrate time to relapse significantly longer with SAPHRIS ISTANBUL, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) today reported final results of a SAPHRIS(R) (asenapine) long-term schizophrenia relapse prevention clinical study. In the double-blind phase of the study, time to relapse or impending relapse, the primary efficacy endpoint, was significantly longer with SAPHRIS than with placebo (P < 0.0001). At the end of the double-blind phase, significantly fewer patients had relapsed with SAPHRIS than with placebo, 12 percent vs. 47 percent (P < 0.0001). In addition, the...

Medicaid firms cut off New Life Lodge

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The health-care companies that handle the state’s Medicaid payments have stopped sending any more patients to the troubled New Life Lodge drug and alcohol residential treatment facility in Dickson County, where two people died last year. In a separate development, Dickson County law enforcement officials acknowledged that there is an active investigation of an alleged sexual assault on a juvenile who was placed at New Life by the state Department of Children’s Services. Lt. Mark Anderson of the Dickson County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday the incident was reported on Aug. 18. Anderson said he anticipated the investigation would be complete in a week to 10 days. Keel Hunt, spokesman for New...

Sudden death of mom raises questions about rehab center

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'Tennessean' Investigation For Lindsey Poteet, Sept. 1, 2010, was supposed to be the day she finished a monthlong drug rehabilitation program, giving her a fresh start to care for her 17-month-old daughter, Arwen. Instead she lay brain-dead and on life support in a Nashville hospital bed. The 29-year-old had checked into New Life Lodge, a residential drug rehab facility in the secluded town of Burns in Dickson County, in early August, but within weeks became very ill. The circumstances of her death have brought an array of unanswered questions from her family and shined a spotlight on the oversight of the largest drug rehabilitation facility in the state that is also one of the largest...

New Life Lodge sued over second patient's death

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The state’s largest drug rehabilitation center has been hit with a second multimillion-dollar lawsuit, this one by a woman whose son died last year two days after checking into the facility. New Life Lodge and its former lead physician Dr. Jonathan W. Butler are accused of medical malpractice, negligence and wrongful death in the passing of Patrick Bryant, who died on his 20th birthday. Bryant’s mother, Penny Lynn Bryant, is seeking a total of $13 million in compensation and damages. Bryant says that her son was prescribed medications he should not have been and was unresponsive for about four hours before being discovered by staff....

Owners of center tell feds of health care probe

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Dickson County drug rehabilitation center is reported to be under investigation about whether officials filed false claims for TennCare recipients. The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/10lBGbt ) cited a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by CRC Health Group, the owner of New Life Lodge, in...

TennCare official defends state's response in New Life Lodge deaths

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The top TennCare medical official defended in federal court on Wednesday the state’s response to the deaths of two New Life Lodge patients last year. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Wendy Long said TennCare acted appropriately by informing other state agencies — the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Children’s Services — following the 2010 deaths of patients at the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center. Long was testifying in the class action John B. lawsuit, which dates back to the 1990s. The suit alleges the state is failing to comply with a federal consent decree and is not providing adequate medical care to children enrolled in TennCare. During cross-examination from...

Official defends TennCare's response in New Life Lodge deaths

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The top TennCare medical official defended in federal court on Wednesday the state’s response to the deaths of two New Life Lodge patients last year. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Wendy Long said TennCare acted appropriately by informing other state agencies — the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Children’s Services — following the 2010 deaths of patients at the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center. Long was testifying in the class action John B. lawsuit, which dates back to the 1990s. The suit alleges the state is failing to comply with a federal consent decree and is not providing adequate medical care to children enrolled in TennCare. During cross-examination from...

TennCare official defends state's response in New Life deaths

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The top TennCare medical official defended in federal court on Wednesday the state’s response to the deaths of two New Life Lodge patients last year. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Wendy Long said TennCare acted appropriately by informing other state agencies — the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Children’s Services — following the 2010 deaths of patients at the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center. Long was testifying in the class action John B. lawsuit, which dates back to the 1990s. The suit alleges the state is failing to comply with a federal consent decree and is not providing adequate medical care to children enrolled in TennCare. During cross-examination from...

Gail Kerr: Action against deficient New Life Lodge overdue

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The biggest question is: What took them so long? The Tennessee Department of Mental Health suspended all admissions at New Life Lodge last week, effectively shutting it down for at least four months or until a state investigation is complete. New Life is a Dickson County residential drug rehab center, the largest in the state. Tennessean investigative reporters Nate Rau and Walter F. Roche Jr. began looking at the facility last summer, after it came to light that two patients had died. The first was a man who, New Life reported to the state,...

Tennessee Department of Mental Health shuts down New Life Lodge for investigation

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The Tennessee Department of Mental Health has shut down New Life Lodge after an ongoing investigation revealed the troubled drug treatment facility failed to provide adequate medical care to its patients among other findings. Admissions have been...

Family sues New Life Lodge for $32M after woman's death

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Just shy of a year after her death, the family of a 29-year-old woman has filed a $32 million lawsuit against New Life Lodge and its parent company, CRC Health, charging the California firm put profits ahead of care for its patients. In a 13-page complaint filed this week in Dickson County Circuit Court, Lindsey Poteet’s mother charged that overcrowded conditions and inadequate staff led to the death of the Monterey resident on Sept. 1 of last year in a Nashville hospital. “Financial gain was placed ahead of the welfare of New Life Lodge’s residents including Lindsey Poteet,” the suit states. Randal Lea, New Life’s director of...

Family sues rehab for $32M after woman's death

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Just shy of a year after her death, the family of a 29-year-old woman has filed a $32 million lawsuit against New Life Lodge and its parent company, CRC Health, charging the California firm put profits ahead of care for its patients. In a 13-page complaint filed this week in Dickson County Circuit Court, Lindsey Poteet’s mother charged that overcrowded conditions and inadequate staff led to the death of the Monterey resident on Sept. 1 of last year in a Nashville hospital. “Financial gain was placed ahead of the welfare of New Life Lodge’s residents including Lindsey Poteet,” the suit states. Randal Lea, New Life’s director...

11/11/11: New Life Lodge can't accept new patients

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This story was originally published on Nov. 11, 2011. The Tennessee Department of Mental Health has suspended all admissions at New Life Lodge, effectively shutting down the state's largest residential drug treatment facility for four months or until an ongoing investigation is completed. The admissions freeze by Mental Health came after its investigation revealed the facility failed to provide adequate medical care to its patients. Admissions have been suspended for 120 days pending completion of the investigation. With a capacity of 228 beds, the rehab center in Dickson County is the largest in the state. As a result of the suspension, New Life Lodge, which is in the small town of Burns,...

New Life Lodge can't accept new patients

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The Tennessee Department of Mental Health has suspended all admissions at New Life Lodge, effectively shutting down the state’s largest residential drug treatment facility for four months or until an ongoing investigation is completed. The admissions freeze by Mental Health came after its investigation revealed the facility failed to provide adequate medical care to its patients. Admissions have been suspended for 120 days pending completion of the investigation. With a capacity of 228 beds, the rehab center in Dickson County is the largest in the state. As a result of the suspension, New Life Lodge, which is in the small town of Burns, has been forced to lay off more than 100 employees,...

Family files second suit over New Life rehab death

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The family of a 29-year-old woman who died while under treatment at the state’s largest drug treatment facility filed a second $32 million lawsuit late last week disclosing new details of her rapidly worsening medical condition during the last days and minutes of her brief life. The suit filed in Dickson County Circuit Court charges that the then-chief medical officer at New Life Lodge, Dr. Jonathan Butler, and two nurses failed to take proper action even as Lindsey Poteet’s blood pressure plunged and she became so weak she could not even stand up. According to the...

New Life Lodge owner loses bid to keep lawsuits separate

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The parent company of the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center lost a critical legal battle on Monday when a judge rejected a motion that could have dragged out indefinitely a $32 million lawsuit stemming from the 2010 death of a patient. Dickson County Circuit Judge George Sexton consolidated on Monday wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuits filed against New Life Lodge following the death of 29-year-old Lindsey...

Death prompts new probe of New Life Lodge

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The health care provided at the state’s largest drug rehabilitation facility is part of an investigation into the death of an 18-year-old man who was under the custody of the Department of Children’s Services. Savon N. Kinney died Sunday at Regional Hospital of Jackson, Tenn., nine days after he left New Life Lodge, the troubled drug rehab center in Dickson County. State officials declined to comment on the nature of Kinney’s death, citing confidentiality laws. DCS spokeswoman Molly Sudderth said there are no longer any children in state custody at the facility. Kinney, who was diabetic, had difficulty walking around and was bumping into things around the family’s...

Death prompts new probe of rehab center

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The health care provided at the state’s largest drug rehabilitation facility is part of an investigation into the death of an 18-year-old man who was under the custody of the Department of Children’s Services. Savon N. Kinney died Sunday at Regional Hospital of Jackson, Tenn., nine days after he left New Life Lodge, the troubled drug rehab center in Dickson County. State officials declined to comment on the nature of Kinney’s death, citing confidentiality laws. DCS spokeswoman Molly Sudderth said there are no longer any children in state custody at the facility. Kinney, who was diabetic, had difficulty walking around and was bumping into things around the family’s...

New Life Lodge wants mother's lawsuit thrown out

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The parent company for the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center is asking a Dickson County judge to dismiss a $32 million lawsuit brought on by the mother of a young woman who died after...

Lawsuit moves forward against New Life Lodge

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The stage appears to be set for a contentious and lengthy legal battle between the parent company of Tennessee’s largest drug rehabilitation center and the family of a woman who passed away during her rehab stint there last year. An hourlong hearing Monday in Dickson County Circuit Court foreshadowed a case that could last well into 2012 and possibly beyond. Kathy Mauk is suing CRC Health, which owns New Life Lodge in...

New Life Lodge rehab center wants wrongful death lawsuit tossed

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The parent company for the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center is asking a Dickson County judge to dismiss a $32 million lawsuit brought on by the mother of a young woman who died after checking into the facility last year. In its Sept. 30 filing in Dickson County Circuit Court, CRC Health claimed Kathy Mauk’s attorney did not follow the proper legal process for filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. CRC Health also argued in its filing that Lindsey Poteet bore responsibility for her own death. Poteet was 29 years old when she died last year on the same day she was supposed to...

New Life Lodge rehab center wants lawsuit tossed

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The parent company for the state’s largest drug rehabilitation center is asking a Dickson County judge to dismiss a $32 million lawsuit brought on by the mother of a young woman who died after checking into the facility last year. In its Sept. 30 filing in Dickson County Circuit Court, CRC Health claimed Kathy Mauk’s attorney did not follow the proper legal process for filing a medical malpractice lawsuit. CRC Health also argued in its filing that Lindsey Poteet bore responsibility for her own death. Poteet was 29 years old when she died last year on the same day she was supposed to...

Lawsuit against drug rehab center settled

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CHARLOTTE, Tenn. — A lawsuit filed over a death at New Life Lodge rehabilitation center has been settled. The Tennessean...




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