The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the Behavioral Health Administration and the Department of Public Health and Environment released a letter to 12 Western Slope lawmakers last week that said they had made “every effort” to assist West Springs Hospital in Grand Junction while also requiring necessary quality improvements.
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When Crisis Access of Colorado won a bid to reform the state’s mental health services, its leader planned to bring the “A-Team” to serve the state’s poor and mentally ill. Instead, mental health lobbyists used political connections to pressure state leaders out of its contract.
New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that nearly 50,000 Americans died by suicide last year. The record numbers are leading to renewed calls for those in crisis to seek help, and for those around them to take action. Last year s all-time high for suicides in the U.S. .
A little more than a year ago, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline adopted the shorter number 988. Since then, mental-health advocates in Connecticut and across the U.S. are seeing great results. .