by admin | Oct 13, 2006 | Health / Medicine
If the Mental Health Task Force does recommend making investigation reports open to the public, it will likely consider how other state departments handle sensitive information. Health Department officials handle a number of investigation reports in a number of ways....
by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
A broad range of recommendations are being considered as the Mental Health Task Force begins work on the recommendations to reduce the abuse and neglect of mental patients and to better investigate cases that do occur. Recommendations include; pursuing national...
by admin | Oct 10, 2006 | Health / Medicine
Missouri is getting some help battling autism as officials express worry about the increase of those diagnosed with the disease. Janet Farmer with the Thompson Center for Autism at the University of Missouri in Columbia says the question that has been driving research...
by admin | Sep 28, 2006 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
Members of the Missouri Mental Health Task Force hear about various problems in the state mental health system, with lack of money surfacing often. Mental health workers went years without a pay raise, until a four percent hike last year. But Interim Mental Health...
by admin | Sep 26, 2006 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
State Mental Health Commission Chairman John Constantino says changes need to be made, at the most basic level, in how the Department of Mental Health reports abuse and neglect. A report from the State Mental Health Commission makes broad suggestions for improving how...
