Barring a sudden reduction in funding, none of Chicago’s 12 mental health clinics will close in 2010, the city’s new health department commissioner promised patients and advocates last night.
Dr. Bechara Choucair told a restless crowd of about 100 that he was reviewing staffing requirements of the city’s troubled mental health clinics, and hoped to improve services at the centers, some of which have no psychologists.
But, he admitted, “We have a deeply broken mental health system. Unless we all work together, we will always have a deeply broken mental health system.” Read more...
