ANNAPOLIS – Legislation that would make it a crime for caregivers — including family members — to intentionally cause severe emotional distress to the physically or mentally disabled adults under their charge was praised Wednesday as a critical amendment to ...

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Maryland’s attorney general can seek a court order blocking the involuntary discharge of multiple nursing-home residents, state’s top court unanimously rules.

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