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PARTNERS | HEALTHY CITY | HOW HEALTHY | VISION | SUMMIT | PRIORITIES | FUNCTIONS | CITY OF FALL RIVER |
The opening
of a new 120-bed inpatient behavioral health hospital on Faunce Corner
Road in Dartmouth, built by Acadia
Healthcare provided the occasion for Southcoast Health to hold its
second Behavioral Health Summit on November 5, 2015 at the new
Southcoast Behavioral Health facility located at 581 Faunce Corner
Road in Dartmouth. The
Summit panel included Secretary
of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders, and State Representative
and Speaker Tempore Patricia
Haddad who was introduced by Southcoast Health President
and CEO Keith Hovan. Speakers included St. Luke's Hospital Emergency
Department Physician Jennifer Pope, Stanley Street Treatment and Resources
CEO Nancy Paull,
and New Bedford Police
Chief David Provencher. The event provided a working forum to solicit
ideas and potential strategies addressing behavioral health needs that
currently exist in the South Coast Region.
Click
here for a one-hour-42-minute 
video of the entire session. For more information, contact Southcoast
Government Affairs and Grant Manager Patrick
Keating at 508-973-5851. |
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(Top row, left) Southcoast Health Community Benefits Manager Kerry Mello and Southcoast Government Affairs and Grant Manager Patrick Keating greet people as they arrive. (Top row, center) Augie and Brenda Venice of NAMI of Bristol County pose for a photo. (Top row, right) New Bedford State Representative Tony Cabral, Connie Rocha-Mimoso of Seven Hills Behavioral Health, and Carl Alves of PAACA talk before the event begins. (Row two) State Representative and Speaker Tempore Patricia Haddad signs in with Mr. Keating before taking a seat on the panel with Southcoast Health President and CEO Keith Hovan and Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders.(Row three) State Representative Paul Schmid greets Stanley Street Treatment and Resources CEO Nancy Paull while Southcoast Behavioral Health Director William Parsons greets State Representative Carole Fiola, and Southcoast Health Resource Advocate Peter Wilmot talks to a guest. (Bottom row) St. Luke's Hospital Emergency Department Physician Jennifer Pope, Secretary Sudders, and Nancy Paull speak. |
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