Fifty new beds being added as part of recent settlement of court case
If there’s an analogy for the challenges facing the state’s mental health system, it might be found in the sweltering heat in the office of Eastern State Hospital CEO Mark Kettner. On a pleasantly cool mid-April day outside, his office is at least 80 degrees.
“There’s no central anything in this building,“ Dean Davis, director of facilities said of the building’s antiquated steam heating system.
The focus is instead on a $6.7 million capital improvement project currently underway that will add 50 beds at Eastern, increasing its capacity to 367 patients, according to Joey Frost, director of org...
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