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First adult mental health centre opens in Adelaide
Thousands of South Australians needing urgent mental health assistance will now be able to access cutting edge out-of-hospital care, with the doors opened this week at a nation-first mental health centre that is an alternative to a hospital Emergency Department.
The $14m Urgent Mental Health Care Centre (UMHCC) in Adelaide is the first of eight to be opened under a $114.5 million trial funded by the Australian Government.
Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, said the Adelaide Urgent Mental Health Care Centre (UMHCC) would give adults access to a range of mental health support services during extended operating hours, from midday to midnight.
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A crane lowers a tiny house into position in Wlimington, N.C. (Photo courtesy Kim Dalton)
Tom Dalton is an anesthesiologist in Wilmington, North Carolina. The voicemail greeting on his cell phone says that he is probably busy putting someone to sleep, or waking them up. Spending most of his time in hospitals, Dalton says he realized that many of the same people were returning for emergency medical care again and again. Many were chronically homeless and had a disability. After performing surgeries on some of those people, Dalton says, the hospital was releasing them to recover, as best they could, in a group shelter, or on the street. In the hospital where he works, Dalton says, chronically homeless people can be admitted 40 to 50 times a year. One man was admitted 246 times in a three-year period. Without individual housing, health problems can fester; the life expectancy for people who experience homelessness for long durations is much lower than the average. Now, Dalton and his w
Eden Village will house 32 single adults who disabilities for just $300 a month. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
WILMINGTON â Down a residential street off U.S. 74, a 400-square-foot home sits vacant in the middle of a muddy and bare 4-acre lot.
Surrounded by nothing, two empty white rocking chairs move gently to and fro on the walk-up front porch as the wind passes. Through the front door, the home is fully furnished, with brand new appliances, made-up beds and enough dishes to cook a decent meal.
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This single home wonât be lonely forever though. A group is now fundraising to turn the acreage into a gated, pedestrian community providing a total of 32 low-cost, forever homes to the homeless and disabled. An anonymous donor has agreed to pay for 16 of them â a $640,000 donation â if the group can secure matches for the other half.