WRAL.com archive: N.C. mental health system

The April 2008 death of a patient neglected for nearly 24 hours at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro and postponing a move of patients from Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh to the Central Regional Hospital, the state's new mental facility in Butner, helped reveal deep-rooted issues in the state's mental health care system and left at least one facility without federal funding.

Central Regional Hospital

• DHHS wants to move Dorothea Dix patients
• Plan will keep Dorothea Dix open three more years
• Patient's suicide try could cost mental hospital U.S. money
• Federal inspector probing suicide attempt at mental hospital
• Advocates concerned for N.C.'s youngest mental patients
• Central Regional worker accused of assaulting young patient
• Federal surveyors clear Central Regional Hospital
• Central Regional in 'immediate jeopardy' of losing federal funds
• Central Regional, again, in jeopardy of losing federal funding
• Central Regional faces new troubles

Cherry Hospital

• Hospital's problems drew new director to job
• Cherry Hospital gets new director
• Four Cherry Hospital employees on leave in probe
• State cracks down on patient abuse, neglect
• Regulators investigating Cherry Hospital nurses
• Cherry Hospital director to resign
• Cherry Hospital worker accused of sexual offense
• Ex-Cherry Hospital workers found guilty of assaulting patient
• Workers speak out about patient abuse claims
• Lawmakers express outrage over mental patient's death