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State Must Report All Deaths at Mental Health Facilities

Gov. Mike Easley says patients are dying in North Carolina's psychiatric hospitals and that needs to stop. In response, new guidelines require all deaths in state-operated mental-health facilities to be reported to the medical examiner's office.
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Gov. Mike Easley says patients are dying in North Carolina's psychiatric hospitals and that needs to stop. In response, new guidelines require all deaths in state-operated mental-health facilities to be reported to the medical examiner's office.

Photographer : Pete James
Reporter : Bruce Mildwurf
Posted 2008-03-26T19:09:38-0400 - Updated 2016-03-09T15:11:58-0500