Letter from Nami NC Affiliate Alamance/Caswell/Rockingham Implementation Update #39

 

 

Dear Sir/Madame:

This letter is on behalf of NAMI ACR Affiliate.  We seriously question the merit of Implementation Update #39 as it relates to Community Support Services.  The infrastructure referred to in the Update will in our view put the small providers out of business and make the large providers larger.  Much of our state is rural and the big providers as they have already demonstrated want only the most populated areas.

Community support is in our view the single most important deterrent on keeping the mentally ill out of hospitals and it is a much more cost effective way to go.

Our mismanaged Division of MH/DD/SA  says some providers are billing for services not rendered or in other words cheating.  They also are up set that those doing the support work are only high school graduates plus required hours of training.  In our view the dishonest should not be tolerated.  They should be identified, warned and if they do not comply-shut them down.  This is a job for the LME and we should let them do it with full support of the Division.

If the Division eliminate community support the repercussions will be more hospitalizations and incarcerations.

Norman Melton, President
NAMI ACR
this letter was hand written and mailed March 5, 2008
posted by Gloria Melton