 "Daily Record (Rochester, NY)")
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Director of mental hygiene law provides vital legal services
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It's not a soap opera or television drama. Real people have mental
health issues that may result in voluntary or involuntary admission
to an acute care or chronic care facility. Article 9 of the Mental
Hygiene Law ensures those admitted that the Mental Hygiene Legal
Service will explain their rights and counsel them on possible
alternatives.
Within the 22 county area that makes up the New York
State Fourth Judicial Department, Emmett J. Creahan, Esq., makes sure
that the affected individua...
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Mental Hygiene Legal Service hires information officer
The Daily Record (Baltimore)
; The Mental Hygiene Legal Service hired Lisa Malek-Renfer as an information officer. The Rochester office oversees the agency's affairs in Monroe, Ontario, Steuben, Seneca, Wayne and Yates counties.
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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COMPANY NEWS.(Business)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; Byline: Compiled by Susan Royal from news releases Ted Sarenski, a partner in charge of financial services with Dermody, Burke & Brown CPAs LLC, was appointed chairman ...
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Practice of dumping psych patients into nursing homes leads to suit.(New York)
Mental Health Law Report
; A suit challenges the placement of hundreds, and possibly thousands, of New York residents with mental illness into nursing homes rather than into integrated community settings. The plaintiffs assert claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Nursing Home Reform Act and charge that the
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Ruling upholds extended commitment; governor signs expanded Megan's Law.(New York: Sex Offenders)
Mental Health Law Report
; New York has won the latest battle to allow the civil commitment of sex offenders beyond their prison terms, while the governor and legislature continue to push tough legislation as well. The state Supreme Court's appellate division reversed a judge's order that 12 sex offenders who had completed
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Woman collapses after mental hygiene hearing
Charleston Gazette
; daveg@wvgazette.com A Lincoln County woman was resuscitated and hospitalized after she collapsed following a mental hygiene hearing in Kanawha County, police said. A mental hygiene worker got an order to pick up Dolly Gibson, 44, at CAMC General Hospital sometime Thursday afternoon pending a mental
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Putnam seeks end to delay of mental hygiene cases
Charleston Gazette
; cshumaker@wvgazette.com WINFIELD - Putnam County commissioners Tuesday reluctantly agreed to pay a bill for what the county owes for housing mental hygiene patients at state facilities. They voted unanimously after debating whether the bill from the state Department of Health and Human Resources
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Justice calls for revisions to rules, Mental hygiene system wasteful, Starcher contends
Charleston Daily Mail
; The chief justice of the state Supreme Court called on West Virginia lawmakers to take the task of temporarily committing the mentally ill out of the courtroom. "West Virginia is the only state in the Union where we convene a full-blown hearing just to get a person in crisis due to mental illness
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Mental bills cost county thousands: Officials may pay for evaluations if health questioned
Charleston Daily Mail
; DAILY MAIL STAFF Kanawha County taxpayers have been paying the bills for mental hygiene patients since Shawnee Hills closed its doors this spring, and the price is now too high, county commissioners say. The county received a three-month bill amounting to more than $25,000 from the Prestera Center
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Woman dies after collapsing at courthouse
Charleston Gazette
; daveg@wvgazette.com A Lincoln County woman who collapsed after a mental hygiene hearing in Kanawha County on Thursday has died, and her sister wants more information about her bizarre final days. Dollie Gibson, 43, of Sumerco was pronounced dead about 4 a.m. Friday at Charleston Area Medical
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Officials looking for ways to assist mental patients
Charleston Daily Mail
; DAILY MAIL STAFF The Kanawha County Commission and sheriff's department are looking for ways to address the needs of mental patients, needs some say have been neglected for too long. The sheriff's department requested funds this year for a mental hygiene officer to help transport patients to and
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