ADVOCACY NEWS FROM NAMI NEW JERSEY:
1. MENTALLY ILL FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
2. WHEN YOU HAVE MEDICAID AND OTHER INSURANCE: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING HEALTH COVERAGE IN NEW JERSEY
3. DIVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION SERVICES STAKEHOLDERS MEETING
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MENTALLY ILL FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
An effort last summer in the state Senate to restore funding failed when no Republicans supported the measure, sponsored by Sen. Richard Codey, D-Essex, a long time advocate for the mentally ill. Hagedorn will close next summer. And the state’s three remaining psychiatric hospitals — Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Camden County, Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County and Trenton Psychiatric Hospital — leave family members of Hagedorn patients with no preferred choice. For Hagedorn patient family members, the question is about more than just money. They’re concerned about the well-being of their loved ones.
Read the Asbury Park Press feature story:
http://www.app.com/article/20111004/NJNEWS/310040001/Christie-s-Cuts-Mentally-ill-face-uncertain-future
Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital stops admitting new patients:
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/hunterdon-county/express-times/index.ssf/2011/10/hagedorn_hospital_stops_admitt.html
Closure/Stakeholders meeting (PowerPoint):
http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/dmhs/home/HPH%20Closure%20Stakeholder%20
Meeting%20Final%209%2021%2011.ppt
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When You Have Medicaid and Other Insurance: A guide to understanding health coverage in New Jersey
The New Jersey Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services has just published the guide, “When You Have Medicaid and Other Insurance: A guide to understanding health coverage in New Jersey if you have Medicaid and Medicare and/or Other Health Insurance to be shared with providers, consumers and other stakeholders who work with Medicaid clients.
It will be posted on the DHS website shortly. It will also be disseminated in a Spanish translation in a few weeks. It is also available here:
http://njamha.org/links/newswire/MedicaidTPLCoverage.pdf
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Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services Stakeholders meeting
On September 22, 2011 The Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services held a Stakeholders meeting to discuss among other things:
- Mission, Vision and Values
- Mental Health and Addictions Merger
- Involuntary Outpatient Commitment
- Requests for Proposals
- Office of Inspector General - Audit
- Regulations
- State Plan Amendments
- Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital Update Medicaid
View the PowerPoint presentation:
http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/divisions/dmhas/DMHAS%20Stakeholder%20Mtg
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