by Associated Press Published: July 8,2010
Tags: healthcare, mental health
BROOKHAVEN — A drug and alcohol rehabilitation program is moving out of Lincoln County amid a restructuring of local mental health facilities. Dr. Steve Ellis, executive director of Southwest Mississippi Community Mental Health Complex, also known as Region 11, said the men’s and women’s rehabilitation programs at Newhaven Recovery Center in Brookhaven will be moved [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 29,2010
Tags: disaster, energy, environment, healthcare, mental health, offshore drilling, oil and gas, oil spill
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s health secretary is again asking BP PLC for $10 million for mental health services to state residents affected by the oil spill. Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine says counseling teams have talked to nearly 2,000 people in affected areas, and report increases in anxiety, depression, stress, grief, drinking, and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 16,2010
Tags: health, healthcare, mental health, nonprofits, state government
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Lincoln County supervisors have voted to become a member of Region 8 Mental Health Services, a geographically smaller but much better-funded organization promising to improve local mental health services. The county board of supervisors voted 4-1 to end a 36-year affiliation with Southwest Mississippi Community Mental Health Complex, also called Region 11. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 19,2010
CLEVELAND — Delta Community Mental Health Services will take over Cleveland’s Crisis Intervention Center from the state on July 1. The 16-bed Charles W. Capps Jr. Crisis Intervention Center provides short-term, acute psychiatric care to individuals committed through the courts. DCMHS Executive Director Richard Duggin tells The Bolivar Commercial that the center is currently operated [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 11,2010
Tags: courts, healthcare, mental health
HATTIESBURG — Officials in Hattiesburg say Mississippi’s first behavioral health court will be located in the city, a newspaper reported. The new program will specifically target the special needs of misdemeanor offenders, suffering with mental health issues, according to a report yesterday in The Hattiesburg American. “We are finishing up the planning right now,” said [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 9,2010
Tags: healthcare, hospitals, mental health
HATTIESBURG — A Hattiesburg hospital has received state permission to convert 24 beds from adult chemical dependency treatment to adult psychiatric treatment. The Mississippi State Department of Health announced April 7 that it is granting a certificate of need for the change requested by Pine Grove Behavioral Health Center. The center is an extension of [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: December 15,2009
Tags: federal agency, healthcare, mental health
STONEVILLE — The Delta Health Alliance recently received two federal grants to expand its programs in the Mississippi Delta. One grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Human Services for $313,329. The other grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for $186,200. Both grants will be used for the Delta Health Alliance [...] [...]
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