‘Healing, interrupted’
February 2nd, 2009From the Boston Globe:
The Goldfarb Behavioral Health Clinic in Jamaica Plain, which provides mental health care to patients with critical needs, is the latest casualty in a round of budget cuts in Massachusetts. Hundreds of poor and mentally ill outpatients will be forced to find new care or go without.
Shutting down the Goldfarb clinic may, in the end, save the state only slightly more than $100,000. Patients and therapists say it will be extremely difficult to replace the trusting relationships that have developed over years of work.
… The clinic’s closing has baffled [therapist Chris Jepson]. “It costs the taxpayers a lot more money to incarcerate these people or to have them in-patient in a psych ward,” he said.
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