Fixes for mental care put forward
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
By Staff
Candidates talk of broken system
The next governor will be asked to repair North Carolina's fractured mental health system, which has wasted money, left sick people without adequate care, and cost lives.
The News & Observer recently reported that the state had wasted at least $400 million on a basic service called community support and had spent too little on treatment of serious mental illness.
While some people are getting services they don't need from private companies, more people are going to state mental hospitals for short stays. These short stays stabilize patients in crises but have little therapeutic value.
The N&O report also revealed that since December 2000, 192 employees had abused 82 patients at the four mental hospitals run by the state, and 82 patients had died under questionable circumstances.
Do the candidates for governor have ideas about what to do?(more…)
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