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Why mobile mental health care works for clients and social workers

HEALTHBEAT

The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene must approve clients to determine whether IMT is an appropriate level of care. Each team provides a range of services to their clients spread across the city’s five boroughs. One of the audit’s findings said, “merely remaining in the program sets a very low bar.”

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Immigration detention center contractor sues over California health inspections

HEALTHBEAT

Hernandez Gomez went on a hunger strike for 21 days after filing dozens of grievances alleging abusive treatment and poor sanitation. Strikers demanded an end to inadequate medical and mental health services, poor living conditions, and solitary confinement.

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Immigration Detention Center Contractor Sues Over California Health Inspections

KFF Health News

” Hernandez Gomez went on a hunger strike for 21 days after filing dozens of grievances alleging abusive treatment and poor sanitation. Strikers demanded an end to inadequate medical and mental health services, poor living conditions, and solitary confinement.