May 22, 2019-New Jersey Says Goodbye to Troubled Group Home Company

Bellwether Behavioral Health, a for-profit disability care company that previously lost its licenses in Delaware and Florida, has now lost its relationship with New Jersey’s Department of Human Services. 

Last year WNYC reported that Bellwether, the largest group home provider for developmentally disabled adults in New Jersey, had thirteen times the average rate of abuse or neglect complaints compared to other large group home companies. Since then, another client has died in the company’s care, and the state has put a moratorium on admissions to Bellwether’s facilities and installed an independent monitor to oversee its operations. That monitor found group homes that failed as many as 60 standards for the health, safety, and civil rights of residents. .Read more