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
- State mental hospital cited for escaped patient
- Construction begins on replacement for troubled mental hospital
- Disability rights group protests planned mental hospital
- Fired Cherry Hospital worker could get job back
- Cherry Hospital worker fired over pillow incident
- Cherry Hospital won't lose federal funding
- Cherry Hospital sued by patient's heirs
- Mental-hospital workers to be retrained after abuse claim
- Cherry Hospital cited for safety violation
- Health care technician assaulted at Cherry Hospital
SeeClickFix
Raleigh Police on Tuesday introduced a system that allows people to report some non-emergency crimes online.
Raleigh residents continue to make good use of a mobile and Web-based tool developed by WRAL.com, the vendor SeeClickFix and the City of Raleigh, according to a report from the city.
Hundreds of problems, such as potholes and litter, were reported and resolved in the first month of use of a mobile and Web-based tool developed by WRAL.com, the vendor SeeClickFix and the City of Raleigh.
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