Eric Hodge: State health officials say Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix hospital will be mostly closed by the end of the year. Rose Hoban has the details.
Rose Hoban: After years of speculation, plans to close the hospital and lawsuits to stop it, secretary of health and human services Lanier Cansler says most of the 154-year-old psychiatric hospital will finally close.
RALEIGH — The state-run Dorothea Dix Hospital will send away most of its psychiatric patients by year’s end, a move that raises questions about what will happen to the 306-acre campus.
Lanier Cansler, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, told hospital staff Tuesday that all but one unit of the hospital will close. Most patients will be moved to the new Central Regional Hospital in Butner and Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, resulting in new assignments for the 803 medical and support staff who work on the campus caring for patients.
The story of Maria Morrow starts with a baby girl who wasn’t given much hope of living.
Morrow was born Dec. 20, 1955, with multiple disabilities that convinced doctors she wouldn’t survive.
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. They have been in harm’s way for years in two countries, in a branch of the military where toughness and self-reliance have been especially prized for generations. Now the Marines are struggling against an enemy that has entrenched itself over nearly a decade of war: mental illness.
RALEIGH — The state Department of Health and Human Services says some services will remain on the Dorothea Dix campus under the direction of Central Regional Hospital, including 24 beds for those charged with crimes and a child outpatient clinic.
Lanier Cansler, the state secretary DHHS, said today he expects the Raleigh mental hospital to shut its doors by the end of the year.
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Spending on prescription drugs in the U.S. multiplied nearly six times from $40.3 billion in 1990 to $234.1 billion in 2008, according to the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. From 1999 to 2009 the number of prescriptions dispensed rose 39% (from 2.8 billion to 3.9 billion) compared to a U.S. population growth of only 9% over the same period.
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