Editors of the Baltimore Sun say the closing of the Rosewood Center, an institution for people with disabilities, “came none too soon, given the center’s troubled past.” They say the institution’s closing has improved the lives of its 166 former residents … “at least so far.” An excerpt:

It’s no surprise that not everyone is pleased with what has taken place. Group homes can have their faults, too.

But whatever their shortcomings, they pale in comparison to Rosewood’s dilapidated housing and its unsafe conditions, patient-on-patient violence and substandard medical care. Such circumstances could not be allowed to continue. The days of state-run institutions for the disabled are slowly coming to an end; the shame is that it took so long for that moment to come to Owings Mills.

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