Mr. George P. Gintoli

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  www.depression.org.uk/information/mainnews.php?purpose= - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2003    Last Visited: 3/3/2007  

  This change came after Circuit Court Judge Henry Floyd held the agency and its director George Gintoli in contempt last autumn for not adequately treating mentally ill inmates in Richland County.

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  www.postandcourier.com/stories/091804/sta_18budgets.sht - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/18/2004    Last Visited: 9/19/2004  

  Mental Health Department director George Gintoli said that his agency has had success treating many people in commun-ity settings, including 34,000 children.
  
  But "there's probably another 30,000 kids we should be reaching out to but we do not have the capacity or there's no access to them right now," said Gintoli, who has increased the number of mental health workers in schools.
  
  He also said an adult day care program is not working and that the state should take a closer look at its sexually violent predator program, which some states don't even have.

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  2004 Annual Training Conference - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/13/2004    Last Visited: 1/14/2006  

  Robert E. Drake, MD, PhD, Director, New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Lebanon, NH and George Gintoli, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Mental Health, Columbia, SC and Charles G. Ray, MEd, President, CGR and Associates, Fairfax, VA

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  AP Wire | 03/31/2004 | Mental health faces impending... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/31/2004    Last Visited: 3/31/2004  

  Director George Gintoli told a Senate Finance subcommittee that no more psychiatric beds or administrative functions can be cut.And, he said, only the most seriously ill patients in South Carolina are being served by his agency.
  
  Only 28 of the 450 people in South Carolina who committed suicide last year had been able to get some sort of treatment from the Department of Mental Health.
  
  Gintoli described a recent case of a 44-year-old man who committed suicide during the long wait for his appointment to be treated for depression.Gintoli said the man hung himself from a tree in his back yard and his body was found by the man's 12-year-old daughter.
  
  There are long waits in emergency rooms statewide for mental health patients who are not receiving appropriate treatment.Almost 60 people were waiting Wednesday to be placed in an alcohol and drug treatment center or at a mental health facility, Gintoli said.
  
  "That's the helplessness that too many South Carolina families are feeling right now," Gintoli said.
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  But Gintoli said the state budget that has passed the House of Representatives offers his agency little relief.
  
  The $2 million allocated last year to cut emergency room waits is gone this year."No one should have to stay in the emergency room longer than a few hours," Gintoli said.
  
  The House-passed budget also doesn't provide the $7 million needed to move patients from the historic Bull Street facility, but does call for sale of the 180-acre property in downtown Columbia.The agency won't be able to leave the facility for at least another year, he said.
  
  "I don't know if that property is going to be sold," Gintoli said."I've been told by a number of people it's almost going to be impossible to do that next year."
  
  Most of the patients at the facility are children receiving treatment for substance abuse."I'm not going to be able to move all those children in the next 90 days," Gintoli said.
  
  The goal is to get the children in community-based care, which would be healthier and put them closer to their families.About a third of the agencies clients are children, he said, with about 30,000 more children needing care.
  
  Gintoli also said some of the money provided by the House budget may not materialize next year - such as the $10 million expected to come from the sale of the downtown Columbia property."There's an impending crisis based on what I see in the House budget," he said.

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  AP Wire | 05/04/2005 | Hospital chief says state needs... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/4/2005    Last Visited: 5/4/2005  

  George Gintoli, executive director of the state Mental Health Department, said it costs the $130,000 a year to operate each bed in a state hospital.In the department's 2005-06 budget request, Gintoli said he asked for $2.1 million to open up 150 additional beds, but the request is not included in either the House or Senate versions of the $5.8 billion budget for the coming fiscal year that starts July 1.

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  AP Wire | 05/04/2005 | Hospital chief says state needs... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/4/2005    Last Visited: 5/4/2005  

  George Gintoli, executive director of the state Mental Health Department, said it costs the $130,000 a year to operate each bed in a state hospital.In the department's 2005-06 budget request, Gintoli said he asked for $2.1 million to open up 150 additional beds, but the request is not included in either the House or Senate versions of the $5.8 billion budget for the coming fiscal year that starts July 1.

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  AP Wire | 05/27/2005 | Former Mental Health Department... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/27/2005    Last Visited: 5/27/2005  

  John Connery was named Friday to run the agency while a search is conducted for a permanent replacement for director George Gintoli.
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  Gintoli resigned earlier this month to take a job with a private company in Florida.

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  AP Wire | 06/04/2003 | Waiting time, list drops for... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/4/2003    Last Visited: 6/4/2003  

  But doing things differently came after Circuit Court Judge Henry Floyd held the agency and its director George Gintoli in contempt last fall for not doing more to treat mentally ill inmates in Richland County.
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  Gintoli congratulated Scaturo and her staff on the progress.

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  AP Wire | 07/21/2003 | Mental health advocates... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/21/2003    Last Visited: 7/21/2003  

  The concern comes after Department of Mental Health director George Gintoli told The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer the problem was more "administrative than anything else."
  
  Gintoli and other officials had previously told mental health advocates, the public and a judge that budget cuts were the reason the department's forensic unit filled up.
  
  Gintoli was unavailable Monday.
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  A circuit court judge held the department and Gintoli in contempt for more than four months beginning last September for failing to do more to treat the mentally ill who had been charged with crimes.

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  AP Wire | 07/29/2003 | Gintoli: Mental illness should... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/29/2003    Last Visited: 7/30/2003  

  Gintoli: Mental illness should be treated same as other ailments
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  COLUMBIA, S.C. - A fully integrated health care system that includes treatment for mental illness could reduce the stigma associated with emotional disorders, Mental Health Department director George Gintoli says.
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  Gintoli told Sanford the mentally ill could be better served in the community if they went to the same health care centers as people seeking treatment for other illnesses.
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  Gintoli and Sanford agreed there should be a more streamlined way to provide health care services in South Carolina, but neither had a proposal to consolidate the work of several agencies.
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  "We have gone to other agencies to ask how we can better work together," Gintoli said, pointing to a list of nine agencies and other groups with whom the department is collaborating.
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  Gintoli pointed to several programs that are taxing his agency's resources, including a sexual predator program that has been underfunded.That program is housed at the Corrections Department but Mental Health is responsible for treating the people determined to be sexual predators and needs at least the $750,000 allocated last year to continue doing the job, Gintoli said.
  
  A veterans nursing home will need $5 million in the following fiscal year, but it also probably shouldn't be run by Mental Health, Gintoli said.

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