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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
January 2003

Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

PULSE ANNUAL No. 1
October 2001

 

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Prevention Partners News List
Farra Thompeter of SAMHSA called our attention to this new resource available through the Prevention Partners web site. It's a monthly e-mail newsletter highlighting the latest additions to the Partners website. Highly recommended.  
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Plan would shut psychiatric ward (New Jersey)
Story in the Jersey Journal - "Bayonne Medical Center officials have asked permission from the state Department of Health and Senior Services to close their inpatient psychiatric ward, a facility they say has been bleeding between $1.2 million and $1.4 million a year since 2001."  
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Mental health care deserves better policies (Illinois)
Coulmn in The Daily Northwestern reviewing the main issues effecting limits on tp access to mental health care - "The current state of the country's health care system creates a major barrier between people who need professional psychiatric treatment and the physicians who can provide it."  
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State mental health chief resigns (Maine)
Boston Globe story - "Maine's state mental health chief, a holdover from the King administration, announced Tuesday she has resigned. Commissioner Lynn Duby of the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services said her departure would become official March 1."  
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Mental-health system flawed (Oregon)
Blue Mountain Eagle story on discussion at a meeting of the Eastern Oregon Rural Alliance last week - "The alliance is a new coalition of county leaders, health officials, economic developers and other officials hoping to educate the Oregon Legislature about the region’s economic and social problems."  
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