Mental health system is the wrong buck to pass – Gaston Gazettee

July 16, 2009

I don’t know whether the Democratic majority in the General Assembly proposed major cuts in state mental-health programs as a response to recent scandals or as a means of scaring North Carolinians into supporting tax increases. Whatever the motivation, it was a bad idea. Continued >

PBH: Compliance and contempt
While it details non-compliance in meeting a court order that led to Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare being held in contempt of court, a September opinion from the NC Court of Appeals also cites the agency’s arguments that it is literally above the law, at least as far as the state’s mental health statutes are concerned. And […]
PBH: A tangled web ….
Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare (PBH) has finally honored North Carolina Mental Hope’s request for copies of minutes from its board of director’s meeting, a packet of printouts arriving last Friday. While I have not had time to delve into them, I finally made time this afternoon to respond to an email from Rep. Fred Steen’s office […]
PBH: Playing Legislators for Fools?
The question of whether Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare is playing legislators for fools would seem a fair one in light of an email from CEO Pam Shipman circulated to members of the Health and Human Services Legislative Oversight Committee regarding North Carolina Mental Hope’s July 26 request for minutes of PBH board of directors meetings. Copies […]

Mental health system is the wrong buck to pass – Gaston Gazettee

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