MENTAL HEALTH NEWS
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NOLA Partnership Article:
Lessons on Patient and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies for Pipeline to Proposal Awards"In this article we highlight the origins, development, and prospects of three current examples of funded P2P initiatives based in New Orleans and Los Angeles. We outline how these projects – Prisoner to Patient, the NOLA Partnership, and Resilience Among African American Men – use CPPR principles." Report: Louisiana coastal residents agree they face ‘existential’ crisis"I’ve been reporting about how peer-reviewed research, projected trends and actual ground-based measurements show that if the causes of our landscape’s subsidence and sea level rise are not addressed in the next two decades, by 2067 much of the bottom third of Louisiana will be submerged by the Gulf of Mexico — or it will become so vulnerable to storm surge it will be unlivable. "
"These long-term mental health effects of extreme weather are a hidden public health epidemic, one that is expected to strain the U.S. health care system as the intensity and frequency of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes and other natural disasters increase in coming decades because of global warming and other planetary shifts."
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"Ochsner Health System and Acadia Healthcare announced a partnership Wednesday (June 1) to expand behavioral health services for residents of the River Parishes and the surrounding region. As part of the agreement, the two health providers will repurpose River Parishes Hospital into an 82-bed inpatient behavioral health center and build a new 20,000-foot medical complex at a separate site in LaPlace.
The Ochsner Medical Complex–River Parishes, scheduled for completion in the summer of 2017, will house a 24-hour emergency department with 13 beds, a laboratory, radiology services and a center for stroke intervention." |
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"America’s prisons have become warehouses for the severely mentally ill. Under the guise of punishing criminality, these inmates may be subject to cruelty from corrections staff, physical constraint up to and including lockdown or solitary confinement, and shocking physical and sexual abuse from other prisoners. They may receive inadequate treatment and poor supervision, and many will commit suicide while in prison.
A 2014 report by the Treatment Advocacy Center notes bluntly that “prisons and jails have become America’s ‘new asylums.’ ” Ten times more mentally ill people are now in jails and prisons than in state psychiatric hospitals: In 2012, approximately 356,268 inmates with severe mental illness were in prisons and jails, while about 35,000 severely ill patients were in state psychiatric hospitals." |
