Comments about: COURT MASTER'S REPORT MENTAL HEALTH CARE FAULTED
AUGUSTA -- Patients held by court order occupy more and more beds set aside for other patients at Riverview Psychiatric...
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SlyME of Augusta, ME
Jun 18, 2009 1:24 PM
The proportionate need for mental health services far exceeds the number of individuals affected by the new marriage statute.

Why do you think that the conversation runs like Niagara about the latter and yet we see only a few comments regarding public policy that first made headlines more than thirty years ago?report abuse
Diddo of Augusta, ME
Jun 18, 2009 10:22 AM
I agree with Wingnut!

Remember the gardens where the ball fields are now? The patients worked those gardens to put food on their table and it also gave them a purpose. It was a working farm. In 100 years someone will come up with that idea again and it'll win awards.report abuse
wingnut of Vassalboro, ME
Jun 18, 2009 8:19 AM
The old AMHI complex at one time housed 2500 people..screw the advocates and the system..the old place worked then and it can work now.
Riveriew was a boondoggle that was destined to fail from the very beginning, a huge waste of taxpayer money.
The department is a money waster, the advocates and lawyers are making off with even more money and only society is feeling the pain.
Time to clean house!report abuse
lessgov of augusta, ME
Jun 18, 2009 7:22 AM
This is not news. When has the State of Maine ever kept it's promis?

Typical, rape one funding (mental health services to fund what DOC should fund).

Riverview has too few beds regardless and we can't afford for every class member to reside in their own apartments with 24 hr care and support services simply to say "we don't need a bigger mental health hospital."report abuse

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