Sununu issues order to expand mental health services
KATHY McCORMACK, Associated Press
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Gov. Chris Sununu issued an order Thursday expanding access to mental health services, in response to a recent state Supreme Court ruling that psychiatric patients being held involuntarily in emergency rooms must be given a chance to contest their detention promptly.
The order adds beds at receiving facilities and ensures services are received from health care providers. It also ensures better community partnerships.
“This order will also review all mental health services across the entire state to determine if the providers we currently utilize are truly equipped and truly capable of meeting the need of New Hampshire citizens, and we are going to be exploring additional opportunities, both in and out state in the private sector, Sununu said at his weekly news conference.
State legislators will begin meeting indoors this week without any mask mandate even though their buildings are in Concord, a city that still has an ordinance requiring masks to be worn in public buildings to reduce the spread of COVID-19.This raised.