A Better Way to Evaluate Mentally Ill?

In response to a shortage of independent mental health professionals in Fairfax County, the Virginia Association of Community Services Boards is pushing for a law that would decrease the complexity of the legal proceedings by which mentally ill people can be involuntarily hospitalized. Today's Fairfax Extra has the story.

By Focus on Fairfax |  November 30, 2006; 12:45 PM ET  | Category:  Government , Health Care, Hospitals , Human Services
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