Article: VETO IS THE LATEST BLOW TO MENTAL HEALTH SALARIES

TERESA MCALEAVY
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
08-14-2000
VETO IS THE LATEST BLOW TO MENTAL HEALTH SALARIES
By TERESA MCALEAVY
Date: 08-14-2000, Monday
Section: LIFESTYLE
Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B
Column: COPING

At a time when the demands on community mental health centers are
growing, those in the field say it doesn't bode well that Governor
Whitman eliminated a $1 million appropriation for employee salary
increases.

With the governor's announcement in April that Greystone State
Psychiatric Hospital in Parsippany would be shuttered by 2003, the bulk
of its 600 patients to be sent into community-based settings, advocates
hoped the appropriation would pass as a ...

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