First patients arrive at new mental hospital
Brad Dean, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that about 110 patients were transferred from John Umstead Hospital in Butner to Central Regional Hospital.
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Umstead's remaining patients, about 100 more, will be transitioned throughout the rest of the week. Adolescent patients will remain at Umstead, where state officials plan to remodel part of the facility for them, but they eventually will be moved, also.
Patients from Dix could be moved in August, although there is no target date, Dean said. Hospital staff and officials will review this week's move to see if there is anything they could have done differently.
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