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Obama in Billings: Montana veterans need and deserve better access to mental-health care Posted on August 27 (Missoulian)
BILLINGS - Montana’s military veterans face more challenges accessing mental health care than do vets in other states, and that is unacceptable, Sen. Barack Obama said today in Billings.
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Canadian Mental Health Association, National Proudly Announces Award-winners At Annual Conference In Nova Scotia (Medical News Today)
Commemorating 100 years of the mental health movement in Canada, this year's annual national conference Making Waves for Change was hosted by the Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) in Halifax on Friday, August 22 and Saturday, August 23, 2008.
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Alberta announces $50M for youth mental health services (CBC)
Improving mental health services for children in rural Alberta is one of the goals of the $50 million set aside by the province on Friday.
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Miami-Dade mental health advocate is reappointed (Miami Herald)
Miami-Dade County Judge Steven Leifman was reappointed as Florida's Supreme Court Special Advisor on Criminal Justice and Mental Health Wednesday by Chief Justice Peggy Quince.
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Pinal to open court for mental health cases (East Valley Tribune)
Pinal County soon will open a court to deal with people in the criminal justice system who suffer from serious mental health problems.
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Patient advocates: N.C.'s mental health system needs fixing (WRAL.com Raleigh)
Advocates for patients say the state's mental health system needs restructuring and more funding.
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APHA Members Named Among The 100 Most Powerful People In Health Care (Medical News Today)
Modern Healthcare magazine has named Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (Emeritus), executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), as one of the 100 most powerful people in health care for 2008. Dr. Benjamin shares this honor with current APHA members Carolyn Clancy, MD; Karen Davis, PhD; and Margaret (Peggy) O'Kane.
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More Health Care Pages (Heritage Foundation)
State officials committed to reforming health care must make a threshold decision: whether to use exist ing government health care funding to help individu als and families purchase their own health insurance or to continue funneling taxpayer dollars into existing health care institutions to defray the costs of caring for the uninsured in emergency rooms.
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Mental unit will take its services to the patients (Winston-Salem Journal)
A 24-hour mobile crisis unit has been established to provide timelier mental-health care to residents in Davie, Forsyth and Stokes counties, Forsyth Medical Center said yesterday.
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Young lives at risk? Mental Health facility closes (WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News)
Some parents of children with severe mental illnesses say they're bracing for the worst now. They hope their children won't hurt themselves or others after the Family Emergency Treatment Center closed down earlier this month.
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