An Iowa facility for people with intellectual disabilities will be permanently closed after federal investigators say patients’ rights are being violated there.
The Des Moines Register reported that 28 residents at the state-run Glenwood Resource Center have been told they will be moved out by the end of June, and 235 employees have been told they will be laid off. The facility had 152 patients and about 650 staff members when Gov. Kim Reynolds announced it would close in 2022.
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A scathing U.S. Department of Justice report condemned Iowa’s treatment of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Justice Department alleged that Iowa may have violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide services to integrate patients into the community.
The Glenwood Resource Center in Glenwood, Iowa, is scheduled to permanently close at the end of June.
A December 2020 report alleges that the Glenwood Resource Center subjected residents to human experimentation, including sexual arousal studies, some of which were determined by federal investigators to be dangerous and resulted in residents’ constitutional violations. It turns out that there is a possibility of copyright infringement.
Most of the residents moved from the 380-acre campus, located about 115 miles southwest of Des Moines, into community-based settings such as residential facilities and host homes for people with intellectual disabilities. When it comes to nursing homes or hospice care, Iowa Department of Health spokesperson Alex Murphy said,
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Officials told the Register that some were transferred to the Woodward Resource Center, another facility in Iowa that has also been cited for deficiencies in the past.
