CONCORD — State budget writers in January accepted more than $12 million in federal pandemic relief money for two projects public health officials believe will help relieve a long-running mental health crisis in the state.
For the past 10 years Health and Human Service officials have tried to reduce the number of adults and adolescents waiting in hospital emergency rooms for a bed to open at a psychiatric care facility.
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