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The Murphys provided the Courier-Post with several binders of records mostly collected from community hospitals where their daughter was treated at least 16 times for medical complications while a patient at Ancora. They also shared their personal notes documenting their visits.
They said they don't have her medical records from Ancora, although they did share a two-page clinical review conducted at the state hospital a few weeks before Tara's discharge. Together, the records show a woman whose mental and physical health declined rapidly after she entered the state's care.
As a child, Tara was diagnosed with a developmental disability and mild cerebral palsy that her mother suspects was the result of a difficult birth. As an adult, she read at a second-grade level. She had no concept of money, so she lived at home with her parents and her dog, Sandy. She worked at a daycare center for about a decade, acted in local stage productions and sang at her church, St. She also suffered with anxiety, a problem that resulted in ever-increasing dosages of multiple medications by the time she was 36 years old.
In the months leading up to Tara's hospitalization, her mother's handwritten notes detailed Tara's sleepless nights, agitation and aggressive behavior.
In June , medical records from a two-week stay at a regional medical center indicated Tara had bipolar disorder. She heard frightening voices at night. She hit her mother. Stabilized with medication and therapy, Tara returned home to her parents' care. Two months later, while she was at a short-term behavioral facility to "adjust" her medications, staff determined she needed more care and told her parents she was heading to Ancora, a place they had never heard of.
Overseen by the state Department of Health, the inpatient psychiatric hospital is situated on acres in Camden County, halfway between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. In September, the hospital counted patients with mental illness, including elderly patients, people with traumatic brain injuries, serious criminal records, substance use disorder, and developmental or intellectual disabilities.
Most of its patients are South Jersey residents. The Murphys met the transport ambulance at Ancora, where Tara was involuntarily committed on Aug. She weighed pounds, according to her parents. There, she was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and impulse control disorder. During the next year and a half, her parents visited her three times a week.
Sometimes, Tara pedaled on an exercise bike in the visitors' room and gazed out the window. Sometimes, she ate home-cooked food and pints of ice cream they brought to share.
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