D.J. Jaffe recognizing bed Space As Part of a Mental Health "Continuum of care" D.J. Jaffe, Executive Director of the Mental Illness Policy Organization "NY Times endorsed the need for more psychiatric hospitals in an editorial Sunday. They specifically referred to a Manhattan Institute policy forum I spoke at with Dominic Sisti and Dr. Jeffrey Geller and a WSJ op-ed by in support of that forum. "As a liberal, it has distressed me that the historically liberal media has ignored the need for more psychiatric hospitals, because that need challenges the myth that everyone with mental illness recovers. It is nice to see the Times acknowledge the need for beds as part of a continuum of care." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/trump-asylum-mental-health-guns.html What we need to do:Next Steps:
We've got the "Good Guy" Hickenlooper Adminstration that hasn't had the integrity to comply with the Disability Civil Rights Laws -- although they do try to do enough to "LOOK GOOD." AND quite frankly if the Hickenlooper Administration is going to flout the law -- which states are going to comply without a Court Order?-- and as we have seen in the Jail Wait Case -- the State may try to wiggle out of any settlement agreement with something like SB18-250 that thankfully failed. So this is a HUGE problem for Mental Health Advocates, Individuals, and Families. We need to work across the Mental Health Advocacy Aisle for both Inpatient and Intensive Community Mental Health Treatments. We also need to work with States on Innovative Solutions to pay for this -- because to comply with Disability and Mental Health Civil and Human Rights Laws is NOT CHEAP.
A comprehensive, effectively working {Olmstead] plan must do more than provide vague assurances of future integrated options or describe the entity’s general history of increased funding for community services and decreased institutional populations.
Sir Nevill Francis Mott CH FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems--- Wikipedia
" 'God of the gaps' is a term used to describe observations of theological perspectives in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's existence. The "gaps" usage was made by Christian theologians not to discredit theism but rather to point out the fallacy of relying on teleological arguments for God's existence.
"Some use the phrase as a criticism of theological positions, to mean that God is used as a spurious explanation for anything not currently explained by science. "The concept, although not the exact wording, goes back to Henry Drummond, a 19th-century evangelist lecturer, from his Lowell Lectures on The Ascent of Man. "He chastises those Christians who point to the things that science can not yet explain—"gaps which they will fill up with God"—and urges them to embrace all nature as God's, as the work of "an immanent God, which is the God of Evolution, is infinitely grander than the occasional wonder-worker, who is the God of an old theology." ----Wikipedia
List of Medicaid Benefits The list below outlines mandatory Medicaid benefits, which states are required to provide under federal law, and optional benefits that states may cover if they choose. Mandatory Benefits
Optional Benefits
Other services approved by the Secretary* Health Homes for Enrollees with Chronic Conditions – Section 1945 *This includes services furnished in a religious nonmedical health care institution, emergency hospital services by a non-Medicare certified hospital, and critical access hospital (CAH). https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/list-of-benefits/index.html |
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