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9 Nov 2009, 10:39 am
A press release today from the Indiana Supreme Court begins:Judges, attorneys and law students in need of mental health or... [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 6:57 am
And mental health providers inside the jail say they lack the staff to adequately examine every prisoner who might be mentally ill.As a result, the jail continues to warehouse mentally ill offenders accused of minor crimes who would be better served in psychiatric hospitals. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 11:59 am
TJPC asked for a modest "increase of $6.5 million (over two years) to conduct mental health assessments, provide mental health services to youth referred to juvenile probation departments or placed in secure facilities. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 9:47 am
I think we're going to get slaughtered," said Leon Evans, chief executive of Bexar County Mental Health Care services. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:51 am
" She writes:Too often, when mentally ill offenders come to their jails, sheriffs who are required to provide appropriate care for their inmates say they are forced to either drive hundreds of miles, wait for days in hospital emergency rooms guarding patients or try to make do in their local jails until a mental health bed becomes available. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 2:21 pm
This rule defines “patient” as a “person who consults or is examined or interviewed by a physician or mental health therapist. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 7:54 am
Friday, January 20th, 8-9am“Trends and Strategies for Minnesota Health Plans” featuring Allan Baumgarten; Partnering with the MSBA Health Law Section Friday, February 24th, 8-9am“Mental Health Law” featuring Stacey Tovino and Sara Gordon from UNLV Law Thursday, March 30th, 4-5pm“Government, More or Less: Overcoming Legacy Barriers to Behavioral Health Integration” featuring John Jacobi of Seton Hall Law [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 3:35 am
The House of Lords considered whether it was too difficult, as Mr Seal contended, to bring a claim under the Mental Health Act 1983. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 10:00 am
It’s not surprising that insurance companies may try to argue that a condition is a mental health one, even if treating providers say otherwise, in an attempt to limit the amount of benefits they have to pay out. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 5:48 am
If you've ever wondered why Rudolph's nose is red, well you'll learn about that, too.On a serious note, don't miss Jaan Siderov's very timely post on balancing privacy rights, Electronic Health Records and mental illness. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 7:35 am
Focusing on one local case, the Navasota Examiner, of all places, ran a news story and an excellent editorial denouncing the state's failure to treat mentally ill defendants who've been declared incompetent to stand trial, and so wait around in local jails for months before a state hospital bed opens up. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 7:50 am
In 2008, Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 8:00 pm
Health Minister Mark Holland stated that more time was... [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 2:00 am
“The number of murders committed by people with mental health problems could be double what official figures show, according to research. [read post]
26 May 2016, 3:03 pm
Presenters:Thaddeus Pope, J.D., Ph.D., Director, Health Law Institute and Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Dan O'Brien, J.D., Consultant, Network for Public Health Law and Former Counsel, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 4:55 pm
Here is the abstract: This paper examines “mental capacity” as a medico-legal social construct and concludes that, while the construct works reasonably well in the contexts of property-related transactions and health treatment decisions, it is deeply problematic and a source of dysfunction in the context of guardianship and guardianship-type interventions. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 2:59 pm
Under the rules, employers and group health plans generally cannot provide less coverage for mental health care than for the treatment of physical conditions. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Climate change negatively affects everyone’s health in a variety of ways, fueling things like heat-related illness and death, respiratory distress, increased incidence of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases, and mental health conditions. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:07 am
A recent HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report assesses the extent of questionable billing by community mental health centers (CMHC) for partial hospitalization programs (PHP). [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 10:30 am
Accident Facts Steven Laverne Jordan, mental health director for North Carolina, was killed in an accident on July 4th. [read post]
