Overseer set for central Pa. health facility that closed amid 2 execs suicides [Video]

By Dan Nephin, LNP, Lancaster, Pa. (TNS)

A Lancaster County judge appointed a temporary receiver to oversee the company that runs Retreat Behavioral Health operations in Pennsylvania, including an Ephrata center.

Judge Jeffrey Conrad’s order Thursday follows the abrupt shuttering of Retreat’s addiction and mental health treatment centers in three states within the past week, leaving in limbo nearly 650 employees and the discharge of patients. It had a

That was followed by the deaths by suicide of its CEO and founder Peter Schorr, and second-in-command, Scott Korogodsky, both in the past week.

• If you or someone you know is at risk for suicide, contact the national crisis hotline by calling or texting 988.

Conrad said receivership would work to ensure Retreat’s Pennsylvania employees are paid, have insurance coverage and potentially continue the “outstanding services to the community that the Retreat had been able to provide.”

Conrad’s order does not apply to Retreat operations in Connecticut…