Community Mental Health

DRM Statement on the Dismissal of the AMHI Consent Decree

by Julia Endicott | Dec 3, 2024 | Announcements, Community Mental Health, Inpatient Psychiatric Settings & Group Homes, Mental Health Advocacy, News

On December 3, 2024 the Maine Superior Court issued an order dismissing the 1989 class action lawsuit and subsequent 1990 injunction that is commonly known as the “AMHI Settlement Agreement or AMHI Consent Decree.” AMHI was a state inpatient psychiatric facility at...

“The Beds Were Just Not Available to Her.” When Psychiatric Hospitals Refuse to Admit Patients from Emergency Departments

by Mark Joyce | May 24, 2024 | Community Mental Health, Inpatient Psychiatric Settings & Group Homes

In the fall of 2022, Disability Rights Maine (DRM) represented a woman who had been "blue papered"[1] in an emergency department (ED) and was awaiting transfer to a psychiatric bed. She remained in the ED for 65 days until eventually being transferred to a psychiatric...

MaineCare and the IMD Waiver: Questions & Answers

by Mark Joyce | Jan 18, 2023 | Community Mental Health, Mental Health Advocacy, News

Q: What is Medicaid? A: Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that provides free or low-cost health coverage to millions of Americans, including some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities. The...

The Current Use Exception: Substance Use Disorder’s Uneasy Status as a Disability

by Guest Author | Jul 26, 2020 | Community Mental Health, Employment

The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) is one of the great civil rights success stories of the last half-century. Its recognition of, and reaction to systemic and individualized barriers at every level of American society serves as an example of how legislatures...

DRM Serves on Mental Health Working Group

by Kevin Voyvodich | Jun 18, 2020 | Community Mental Health

In 2019 DRM was appointed a member of the legislatively-mandated Mental Health Working group. I had the pleasure to be the appointed member from DRM on that group. In the first legislative session of 2019 Senator Cathy Breen presented a bill in the Maine Legislature...

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DRM Statement on the Dismissal of the AMHI Consent Decree

“The Beds Were Just Not Available to Her.” When Psychiatric Hospitals Refuse to Admit Patients from Emergency Departments

MaineCare and the IMD Waiver: Questions & Answers

The Current Use Exception: Substance Use Disorder’s Uneasy Status as a Disability

DRM Serves on Mental Health Working Group

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