The opening of a new state mental hospital has been postponed.
According to a release from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, patients from Dorothea Dix Hospital and John Umstead Hospital will not be transferred in mid-June.
Instead, patients and staff from Umstead will move to the new Central Regional Hospital in Butner from July 14-18, and patients and staff from Dix will move from July 28-Aug. 1.
Administrative offices will move to the new hospital this week, as planned.
The adjusted schedule provides an additioanl 30 days for Umstead staff to get trained and another 44 days for Dix staff to receive training.
Questions about the new hospitals' safety, staffing shortages and lack of training have led some legislators and Republican gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory to call for a delay in the opening.
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