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Friday, September 14, 2007

Georgia has new mental health watchdog

Georgia has a new watchdog for its mental health system. Charles Nemeroff will lead the Mental Health Service Delivery Commission. The commission was created last month because of problems in state mental health facilities like lack of funding, inadequate staffing, overcrowding and bad treatment. A series of reports by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution brought many allegations of a failing mental health system to light, including several patient deaths.

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