Description

This Commission report is on a 21-month-long investigation into the financial and program practices of the Greenwood Rehabilitation Center, Inc., a private school for the mentally retarded located near Ellenville, New York (with administrative offices in Hicksville, Long Island), and into the regulation of this school by the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and the former Department of Mental Hygiene. It is the conclusion of this report, with respect to the Greenwood Rehabilitation Center, public fund in the form of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments, intended primarily for the care of the residents, have been diverted, through a variety of means, to the personal and corporate enrichment of the owners, their families and associates--to the detriment of the mentally retarded residents the corporation was ostensibly created to serve.