Jul 09 2008
Budget speeds Dix closure
A last-minute change to the state budget will make it easier to close Dorothea Dix.
The final budget headed to Gov. Mike Easley was stripped of a provision that would have required the new Central Regional Hospital in Butner to be approved by outside inspectors before it can accept patients. It’s unclear who wrote the provision.
Advocates for the mentally ill decried the change, which effectively lets Secretary of Health and Human Services Dempsey Benton certify that the new hospital is safe.
The Democrats in charge of the North Carolina government continue to compound their $400 million boondoggle by not having a independent inspector pass/fail their new hospital. It is a shame and a surprise that these irresponsible legislators are allowed to continue the “Era of Entrenched Corruption”.
