Plan to rehab health center, add mental health, should be abandoned.
Hold onto your wallets, Cumberland county taxpayers, an assault on our money is in the works.
The issue is easily understood. Which project is more responsive to the needs of Cumberland County citizens and which is more responsive to the wants and desires of county commissioners and county management?
An expanded Cumberland County jail may need a mental health wing.
That possibility was floated Tuesday as county commissioners learned that about 20 percent of the detainees in the current jail have psychological problems.
Moses Cone and High Point Regional health systems plan to seek a competitive federal designation that could net millions of dollars for their joint program to treat Guilford County’s poor and greatly reduce its reliance on county taxpayer support.
Federal health reform legislation passed earlier this year included more than $9.5 billion over the next five years for local health centers that not treat low-income and uninsured patients, but fully insured patients as well.
RALEIGH — Timothy E. Helms, a mentally ill inmate whose skull was smashed following an August 2008 fire in his prison cell, died at a Greensboro hospital Sunday morning.
He was 49.
The blunt-force trauma Helms suffered while in custody at a state prison in Taylorsville caused extensive bleeding in his brain, leaving him bedridden and unable to walk. Though he showed some signs of improvement in the past two years, he could still hardly speak or perform such mundane tasks as feeding himself.
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