To: The North Carolina State House, The North Carolina State Senate, and Governor Roy Cooper
Adult Care Homes/Institute of Mental Disease
Tell NC to STOP the Institute of Mental Disease determination for Adult Care Homes and give our mentally ill some respect.
Why is this important?
People living with mental illness don't typically make the most popular list but in North Carolina THOUSANDS of these individuals who currently have housing and security and are about to loose all of it.
North Carolina in an effort to respond to concerns regarding the safety of our aging population living in Adult Care Homes reacted without prior consideration of the consequences. Beginning last month, the first of many Adult Care Homes across this state were given a determination of "Institute of Mental Disease" & stripped of the ability to get paid if 50% their residential population had a primary mental health diagnosis. The result is thousands of individuals with mental illness across NC will be put out on the street over the next several months. In addition, as these people need assistance with medications and behavioral health management, they will be using the hospitals, emergency departments, and/or ending up our overcrowded jail system.