It’s been a mystery how SBI agent Mark Isley’s career soared while evidence mounted that he fabricated a confession that forced a mentally disabled man to be locked away at a mental hospital for 14 years.
Isley’s climb is now clear, chronicled in a racial discrimination settlement released Friday, months after The News & Observer first requested the documents.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Most of the patients at Dorothea Dix Hospital will be moved to other facilities by Dec. 23, and the hospital could close its doors as early as next fall, according to a timeline from the state Department of Health and Human Services.
RALEIGH — The number of people with serious mental illness in North Carolina’s prisons and jails is now more than six times higher than those in state psychiatric hospitals, a new study says.
The analysis, by the Wake County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is expected to be the focus of an event today at the legislature. The advocacy group hopes to call attention to the pending closure of Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, which will reduce the number of state psychiatric hospitals from four to three.
Horizon Health Center is the only medical office that provides routine health care to the homeless in Wake County. It sits in a small, gray, stucco building on Tarboro Road in Southeast Raleigh – easily accessible to people who live in downtown shelters.
But the 1970s building has a mold problem: Moisture seeps through the stucco and flat roof to the walls and ceilings.
Unfortunately, in this career as in many other public service-oriented fields, we often come into contact with people who are experiencing a crisis or in need of specialized services.
Recently, three co-workers and I attended a 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program in Hillsborough. Coordinated by the OPC Area Program, CIT is a collaboration of law-enforcement agencies, advocacy organizations (the Mental Health Association in Orange County and NAMI), treatment providers (such as Freedom House Recovery Program) and OPC.
A regional mental health organization held a briefing in Davidson County to discuss changes to the health care system and how it will impact patients, providers and overall mental health service.
With recent national healthcare reform signed in to law last month by President Barack Obama, an additional 32 million Americans are expected to be covered under the law.
PBH, (formerly Piedmont Behavioral Healthcare) presented information to concerned residents about what that means for the mental health system on a local and state level.
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