Judge Rules Court Won’t Step in to Aid Vets

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, June 26, 2008
(06-25) 11:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government is subjecting veterans to long delays in obtaining mental health care and medical benefits, but the power to change the system rests with officials and Congress, not the courts, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday in dismissing [...]

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Mentally ill face extra-long ER waits

By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY – June 17, 2008
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Psychiatric patients who need hospitalization wait for hours in emergency departments for admission because hospitals are dropping mental health units and beds are scarce, a new survey says.
Nearly 80% of hospitals said mentally ill patients sometimes wait four hours or more to be admitted, says the American [...]

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Field Poll: CA Public Oppose MH Cuts

Field Poll: To cut or not to cut
Sacrament Bee Staff
Published 5:46 am PDT Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Here’s the dilemma facing state politicians as they seek to close this year’s budget gap: California voters say they prefer spending cuts to tax increases. But a new Field Poll found they also oppose cuts in 13 service areas [...]

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Coalition plans coordination on mental health

The Press Democrat
Monday, June 9, 2008
BY D. ASHLEY VERRILL
STAFF REPORTER
SONOMA COUNTY – The Mental Health Coalition of Sonoma County has spent the last four years quietly preparing for the launch of what could make it the most important player in the county’s mental health system as a kind of clearinghouse of information for providers and [...]

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