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Montana VA acute mental health facility faces chronic lack of docs

March 7, 2012 /

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Montana veterans traumatized by their service and in need of acute inpatient psychiatric treatment for problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder or military sexual trauma must travel hundreds of miles out of state for help.

In the meantime, the acute psychiatric wing of the $7 million, 24,000-square-foot inpatient mental health facility at Fort Harrison, which was announced with great fanfare in June 2011, sits empty.

The VA Montana Health Care System has been unable to recruit three full-time psychiatrists to staff the eight-bed wing around the clock.

By CINDY UKEN Billings Gazette

Full Story: http://helenair.com/news/local/military/va-acute-mental-health-facility-faces-chronic-lack-of-docs/article_f12c1226-6822-11e1-9787-0019bb2963f4.html

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