Las Vegas SUN: No longer under the radar -
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Published on: 3/27/2005
Last Visited: 3/27/2005
"What has been proposed goes in the right direction," said Vic Davis, Southern Nevada's National Alliance for the Mentally Ill chapter president."We're still so far behind after they cut the budget in half in 1992.But the additional acute hospital beds will take care of some of that."
Davis, who has three relatives with mental illnesses, is also enthused about proposed legislation that would establish 24-hour triage centers where mentally ill individuals could get medication and counseling without having to wait for weeks to get appointments at the clinics.These centers also would ease some of the emergency room overcrowding.
"If they have to wait two weeks to see a doctor at the clinic, you'll see them in the emergency rooms," Davis said.
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