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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
By ALAN JUDD, ANDY MILLER Already this month, Georgia officials have settled one federal case alleging civil rights violations of state psychiatric hospital patients. They have until the end of July to respond to another. Together, the two cases could force a doubling of Georgia's mental health budget, adding $480 million a year, or more. Even then, Georgia would only reach the national
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Heather May Davis County's sole provider of mental health services to low-income residents wasted $850,000 to create new corporations that didn't help patients, according to a state audit released Thursday. There's some dispute whether the money spent by Davis Behavioral Health to start and run the affiliated companies from 2003 to 2007 was public or private funds. But the Office of the
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Chris Treadway Bettye Randle was a newcomer to Richmond trying to piece her life back together a little more than decade ago when she noticed a small announcement seeking volunteers to serve on the Contra Costa County Mental Health Commission. "The day I moved to Richmond is when I saw the ad in the (Times)," Randle said this week. "I called right away, and I was lucky enough to get
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Neil Munshi - July 4, 2008 Mental health advocates are praising a state report as validation that a bill expanding mental health care and substance abuse treatment will not be too costly, a chief concern of business and insurance groups. The Department of Public Health evaluation - based on a review of past studies, an actuarial analysis, and interviews with Massachusetts insurers and
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Vicky Eckenrode - July 4, 2008 at 3:30 a.m.) Members of the area's N.C. House delegation have asked state health officials to help Southeastern Center for Mental Health work through its financial issues. In a letter sent Thursday, four state representatives requested the state Department of Health and Human Services head to immediately appoint an administrator to work with Southeastern's
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Steve Leblanc - July 4, 2008 BOSTON—An initiative expanding insurance coverage for a long list of mental health diagnoses is making its way through the Legislature. House lawmakers approved the bill, which would lift existing caps on the number of office visits insurance companies must offer for people suffering from a range of mental ailments, from alcoholism and eating disorders to
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Bipolar Blast (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
There are benefits to seeing a holistic psychiatrist that has nothing to do with mental health—or at least only marginally so. I have seen multiple benefits in my body and health since I started working with my new orthomolecular psychiatrist. There is all I’ve already told you about—the greatly improved sleeping and energy and continued psychiatric [...]
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Semidi (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is absolutely heartbreaking. The rules for awarding the Purple Heart should be changed to include Joseph Patrick Dwyer and every soldier suffering from PTSD; how can having your mental health damaged by a war not constitute an injury? (Via Susie, who aptly titled her post.)
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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since a battlefield injury is likely to involve a traumatized brain, anything that can preserve a soldier’s mental health is welcome.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Ruth Liao • Statesman Journal Within the past year the number of hours of mental health training that Oregon law enforcement officers receive in basic police academy has increased sixfold — indicating that the need for the training is apparent. "We know that there's more that needs to be done," said Cameron Campbell, director of training at the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new treatment programme for cancer patients with clinical depression can significantly boost their quality of life according to new research published in the Lancet. Cancer Research UK scientists devised the treatment programme which offers patients one-to-one sessions with specially trained cancer nurses to help them manage their depression more effectively.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Biesecker - July 3, 2008 BUTNER - State mental health officials said today they are finally ready to move patients into North Carolina’s newest psychiatric hospital — a project dogged by doubt, delays, cost overruns and safety concerns. Opening day for Central Regional Hospital in Butner has been called off at least four times since November, when it was originally set to receive
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The Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Barack Obama recently told a Christian magazine he opposes late-term abortions performed because of mental health problems of the mother. "I don't think that 'mental distress' qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term," Obama said. But the Supreme...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The reported death of a woman at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., illustrates the dire need for more public services for individuals with mental illness, according to the American Psychiatric Association. According to news reports, a woman who was suffering from agitation and psychosis, was kept waiting in the emergency room for almost 24 hours because the hospital reportedly did not have...
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Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
the case I wish to explore is a patient admitted to a mental health treatment ward. The client is currently on a section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983, and has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. She is overweight and has Diabetes type 2. This has been a concern to...
