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Feb 22, 2022

Maine hospitals, mental health advocates want more funding to address gaps

Mar 3, 2022

Author: Don Carrigan Published: 9:30 PM EST March 2, 2022 “Hospital leaders, including Scott Oxley, president of Acadia Hospital in Bangor, said the major problem causing extended patient stays in emergency rooms is a lack of community and residential mental health services. They said the chronic underfunding of those programs, coupled with a worsening shortage of mental…

Maine Med president: Lack of state mental health investment is major factor in ER violence

Mar 2, 2022

Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer BY JEFF SANDERS, SPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD “…We all agree that individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities should be in the least restrictive settings in which they can safely and successfully live. But when group homes and residential treatment facilities do not have adequate clinical resources to manage a patient’s behavior,…

Gov. Mills barely mentioned opioid crisis in State of the State, and people noticed

Feb 22, 2022

“…Malory Shaughnessy, director of the Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine, acknowledged the systemic improvements being implemented by the administration. But she said it was “really disconcerting” not to hear the governor talk about about the immediate challenge of keeping people alive. “They’re looking at big picture, big fixes which are longer-term responses,…

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