The state’s hospitals, businesses, advocacy groups and professional associations sent up an SOS on mental health this week, asking in an open letter for Gov. Roy Cooper and legislative leaders to create a bipartisan plan for improving North Carolina’s mental health system.
The state’s mental health system has been troubled for years, but the letter to Cooper, House Speaker Tim Moore, and Senate leader Phil Berger says it is getting worse.
The NC Healthcare Association, which represents hospitals, the NC Chamber, the associations for doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, Disability Rights NC, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, and NAMI NC said in their letter that North Carolina is facing “a second public health crisis: skyrocketing demand for mental health services in an environment where it can’t meet the escalating needs for treatment. Quite simply, the behavioral health crisis across North Carolina has reached a state of emergency, and w
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