Berger v. Clermont County Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board

William W. Young, Judge.

On November 18, 1991, respondent-appellee, William Frederick Berger, was admitted to the Pauline Warfield Lewis Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a result of his mental illness. The Lewis Center is a residential treatment facility for the mentally ill owned by the state and operated by respondent-appellant, the Ohio Department of Mental Health (“department of mental health”). In January 1992, Berger’s treating psychiatrist, Steven Best, M.D., concluded that the center was no longer the least restrictive placement consistent with Berger’s treatment needs. Specifically,…