BILLS’ STATUS AT THE FINAL BELL Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA HB 228: Reorganizes Department of Human Resources; creates new Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, which assumes role of current Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases; ... |
Mental health reformers split over strategy Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA But they say the settlement allows too much time to improve care, while failing to hold the state accountable. “We want teeth in the settlement agreement,” said Cynthia Wainscott, a former national chairwoman of the advocacy group Mental Health America ... |
LEGISLATIVE NOTEBOOK: No last-minute deal to increase Macon-Bibb ... Macon Telegraph, GA The change should send a message that the state wants to focus on and solve problems in its mental health programs, said state Sen. Johnny Grant, R-Milledgeville. Other DHR programs, including the public health division and long-term care regulatory ... |
Mental health reformers at odds Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA The objection, filed in federal court in Atlanta, has brought together adversaries and divided allies. In the balance is a plan to correct chronic abuse, neglect, overcrowding and substandard medical care in the seven state hospitals. ... |
Reorganization of the Department of Human Resources OK’d by Senate Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA Concerns with the mental health system have drawn federal scrutiny since 2007, when The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that scores of hospital patients died under suspicious circumstances from 2002 through late 2007 amid poor medical care, ... |
 The Baldwin Bulletin | Central State privatization looking more and more likely The Baldwin Bulletin, GA The Department of Human Resources considers mental health a civil rights issue, according to an agency spokesman. “We have to get to the point where we treat mental health like we would other diseases,” said David Noel. “If you have someone with heart ... |
Stop the ineptitude Savannah Morning News, GA They are right and their voices should be heard in Atlanta. Now, respected members of the judiciary have added their voices to that call. Among them is Superior Court Judge Penny Haas Freesemann, who presides over the Chatham County Mental Health Court ... |
Johnny Johnson Times-Enterprise, GA ... five days a week taking care of a severely mentally retarded patient at SWSH. Since the inception of this program, he was the oldest and one of the longest tenured volunteers. This program was one of the mental health projects established by First ... |
We're Paying For Winos To Live There and Get Drunk? Huffington Post, NY Nearly $4 million was saved by taxpayers by housing chronic, homeless drunks in a Seattle housing program, versus letting them sleep on the streets -- which triggers costly health care and criminal justice services. When it was first unveiled three ... |
Petitioners seek to save Savannah mental facility Florida Times-Union, FL The plan to phase out the hospital and begin building two state-of-the-art psychiatric facilities in Atlanta and South Georgia would take up to five years and eventually lead to better care for more patients, according to department officials. ... Judges join effort against closing hospital |
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