MultiMedia Project: Mental Health and the Health Care Reform

{ November 23, 2009 @ 8:02 pm } · { Uncategorized }

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Mental Health aspects within the Health Care Reform Bill are not something that you hear about very often, but they are important to the people and families affected by somebody who is suffering from mental illness. I was originally told that it would be okay for me to go into the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital psych ward and interview the nurses and aides, and take pictures of empty rooms and beds, as long as I didn’t get any patients in the shots. Unfortunately, they decided that the patients in the ward at this time were too much of a threat, and that my being there as a non-visitor at all, especially with a camera, would have severely set off at least one of the patients. I think this could have been much more powerful with access to the psychiatric unit, but I did manage to talk to a psychiatrist in a private practice, and a case manager for the severely mentally ill at the hospital.

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