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Valley News - Newport, N.H., man's case shows difficulty of accessing mental health care


Newport, N.H., man’s case shows difficulty of accessing mental health care
Dominick Dephillips (Courtesy photograph)
Modified: 12/23/2020 8:40:18 PM
NEWPORT, N.H. Dominick Dephillips’ primary care provider referred him to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for psychiatric treatment three times this year, but in November the 48-year-old Newport resident got a letter from the Lebanon hospital saying that it couldn’t offer him outpatient services.
The letter, which Dephillips shared with the
Valley News, pointed both to the ongoing challenge Vermont and New Hampshire have in providing outpatient mental health care as well as a “sharp increase in demand for psychiatric and psychological services” due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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