In a move to restructure New Hampshire’s mental health system, state officials are making investments aimed at eliminating the longstanding practice of boarding patients with mental illness in hospital emergency
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Published: 4/20/2021 3:57:04 PM
When Gov. Chris Sununu announced New Hampshire’s mask mandate last November, he cited hospital capacity and staffing strain as key factors in his decision. As that same mandate is now lifted, federal hospital data paints a mixed portrait of the pandemic’s effects on the state’s hospitals: On some fronts things have improved, but on others they’ve actually worsened or stagnated.
Asked how the current hospitalization outlook squares with his prior stance on the state’s mask mandate, Sununu told NHPR that the state is in “such a different position” than we were in November. He pointed to the widespread availability of coronavirus vaccines and declining fatality rates as justification for rolling back mask rules.
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