Re: Quick Hits

John_Burns — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:20:27 -0500

Thanks.

Re: Cohen on Scott's open-door policy

FFC1304 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:02:06 -0500

And thus precedent was set...

Re: Scott's possum-dinner menu

GrayJ — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:28:40 -0500

This is very interesting to say the least. Gov. Scott seems like he was quite the character. Thanks for this post!

Re: Scott on Scott

golfnut2 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:00:07 -0500

Governor/President Scott was a North Carolina Treasure. He was a true leader who had wonderful common sense and never lost touch with the people.
He did so much to further the cause of education in all of the communities in North Carolina.

Re: What does the Health and Human Services Secretary do?

annelee — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:08:46 -0500

My comment is on what he is not doing -- He is not providing good mental health care to residents of poor counties like Washington County. I will not argue that AMHC is/was an organization without its flaws because as a therapist I could see them, but when it came to the work done in the Plymouth Unit while I worked there, we provided good services to the patients. By the time I was laid off in October 2008, the psychiatrists, support staff and myself, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, provided quality care to approximately 300 residents of Washington County. We were able to prevent hospitalization in most cases. Often this was because we had patients come in several times a week. I was in private practice in another state for more than 20 years and I had to be a good therapist to make a living in a city with hundreds of private practices. I provided as good or better to Washington County patients as did the psychiatrists.

I no longer have a job with AMHC so I have no interest in "saving" that organization as it currently functions. I am very sorry that many very caring, competent people will be losing their jobs because these people had nothing to do with the organization's problems. My question is, what will be done for the poor in this county where there is no public transportation and, to the best of my knowledge, no local private sector service that can provide for their needs?

I have been around for a long time and I know this system will never work in poor counties. I doubt that it will be effective in affluent counties. Public mental health care has never been perfect but it has never been this bad either. This is a sad time for this county already plagued with crime, lack of employment opportunity, no public transportation and now no place to get mental health treatment.

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