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by Adam Doster
4:43pm
Tue Apr 7, 2009
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How A $16 Million "Upgrade" Could Cost Chicago Four Mental Health Clinics

Chicago

Four years ago, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a massive report titled Strategic Plan 2006-2011. Hoping to maximize dwindling resources, administrators laid out a detailed plan for how CDPH should reorganize internally to provide the best care ...

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by Angela Caputo
2:41pm
Mon Mar 23, 2009
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Four Clinics, Eighteen Months: What's The Solution?

Chicago

Since late January, Chicago officials have been playing dodgeball with ongoing questions regarding the proposed closure of four South Side mental health clinics.  When news of the closings first surfaced, Mayor Daley blamed the state for cutting the city's mental health ...

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by Adam Doster
4:34pm
Wed Mar 11, 2009
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Illinois' Mental Health System In Disrepair

Chicago

There’s good and bad news in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) new report, “Grading the States.” The good news: the group raised the grade of Illinois’ mental health system. The bad news: the state still earns a D. According to NAMI, Illinois made an ...

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by Angela Caputo
4:08pm
Wed Jan 21, 2009

Parks Before Mental Health Patients

Health Care

Last November, the Daley administration announced that it planned to devote $7 million in tax increment financing (TIF) subsidies to the construction of a new plaza at the intersection of Franklin and Randolph in Chicago. At the time, Daley described it as a “boon for ...