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Study: Outpatient mental-health services tough to find
A study in the journal Health Affairs recently reported that about two-thirds of primary care physicians could not get outpatient mental-health services for their patients in 2004-05. Roughly 6,600... Read more...
Florida lawmakers and DCF in fight over hospital privatization
Privatization of Northeast Florida State Hospital, a state-run residential psychiatric facility near Jacksonville, is at the center of a fight brewing between Florida lawmakers, Florida's Department... Read more...
Study: Psych patients face especially long ED waits
With the number of psychiatric units dropping in hospitals, and beds scarce, mentally-ill patients in need of hospitalization are waiting for increasingly long periods to be admitted, according to... Read more...
VA puts together travel nurse program
In an effort to cope with the nationwide shortage of nurses, the Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to create its own group of nurses whose job it is to travel and work throughout the... Read more...
