Limited medical staffing in Colorado correctional facilities leads to delayed treatment
With Colorado prisons continuously struggling to recruit and retain staff, medical personnel in particular are running low, leading to burnout for those who are filling those positions and delayed care for those who are incarcerated. Dan Meyer is an attorney at the Spero Justice Center, which focuses on decarceration and ending extreme sentencing practices in […]
Faribault Medical Center offers new mental health treatment for teens
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 50% of all lifetime mental illnesses begin at age 14. In 2024, Mental Health America reported that 102,000 Minnesota teens had at least one major depressive episode in the last year. For teens in Faribault, there is a new program at the Allina Health Faribault Medical Center called the Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP). This program has been offered at Allina clinics across the country, but it came to Faribault only a month ago. Molly Hines, the supervisor...