#Thrive AWOL again as hospitals use COVID as excuse for cutting vital psychiatric beds

#Thrive AWOL again as hospitals use COVID as excuse for cutting vital psychiatric beds

“#Thrive AWOL again as hospitals use COVID as excuse for cutting vital psychiatric beds” New York desperately needs more psychiatric beds to handle often-homeless patients with serious mental illness, but the insiders keep reducing the count instead because they’d rather focus on more-easily-treatable disorders. The latest: Under cover of the pandemic was the shutdown of…

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#Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help with psych-wards

#Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help with psych-wards

“#Nurse says ThriveNYC ignored pleas for help with psych-wards” A Brooklyn nurse says he repeatedly tried to warn city First Lady Chirlane McCray about the devastating effect of reassigning psych wards to be used for COVID-19 patients — only to be ignored by her billion-dollar mental-health initiative. Irving Campbell, a psychiatric nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist,…

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#Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free

#Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free

“#Stop letting dangerous lunatics roam free” What will it take for the city to finally address the clear danger posed by severely mentally ill walking city streets and haunting the subway? An unhinged man tossed a woman onto the tracks at Times Square last Friday. Happily, she managed to get out in time — and…

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