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As many as 1,200 mentally ill adults, scores of them living in the Lake Norman area, could be forced out of assisted-living facilities as the state tries to enforce a Medicaid rule concerning mental health care centers.

The rule requires assisted-living facilities with more than 16 beds have no more than half of their residents diagnosed with a mental illness. The rule is decades old, but the state is now asking the homes to comply or fall under the designation of “institution of mental disease.” Mentally ill residents in those facilities cannot receive Medicaid funding.

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FRANKLIN — A Macon County man believed his mother was the Whore of Babylon and was trying to poison him when he shot her and burned her body in the backyard, according to court testimony today.

Harold Jason Campbell would later tell a doctor at a state mental hospital that he was getting computer messages directing him to kill his mother in 2006.

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Siler City, NC – As difficult as it is to imagine, children as young as 2 or 3 years old may have depression or anxiety. In fact, it is estimated that between nine percent and fourteen percent of children from birth to five years of age experience social and emotional problems that negatively affect their functioning and development. The numbers for developmental disabilities are equally staggering. The N.C. Autism Society estimates that one out of every 110 children born today has some form of autism spectrum disorder.

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CenterPoint Human Services is likely to need more money from the four counties it serves — Forsyth, Davie, Stokes and Rockingham — if it is to remain as their oversight agency for behavioral-health providers.

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that CenterPoint was among four local management entities (LME) in North Carolina whose applications for Medicaid waiver programs were denied. The department had until Monday to select the qualified LMEs. CenterPoint needs to improve its liquidity, among other things, according to a consultant the state hired to review applications.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Massachusetts man who threatened to burn four churches in Charlotte and the local NAACP has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.

However, 46-year-old Jeffrey Smith has been released to the custody of mental health officials because he has already been in jail since last summer.

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Many of us have never heard of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), even fewer know that they could be carriers of the genetic defect that is one of the most commonly inherited causes of mental impairment and autism.

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