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Re: Open or Conceal Carry?
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Originally Posted by ViolaLee
Was it proven that the mental hospital did not report his stay?
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The Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel would seem to be a good place to start:
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Statutory time constraints for temporary detention and involuntary commitment hearings significantly impede the collection of vital psychiatric information required for risk assessment.
The Virginia standard for involuntary commitment is one of the most restrictive in the nation and is not uniformly applied.
The fact that a CSB representative did not attend the commitment hearing and the failure to certify a copy of the outpatient commitment order to the CSB resulted in an absence of oversight for Cho’s outpatient treatment.
The lack of a requirement in the Virginia Code to certify outpatient commitment orders to the CCRE resulted in Cho’s name not being entered in the database, which could have prevented his purchase of firearms.
There was a lack of doctor-to-clinician contact between St. Albans Hospital and the Cook Counseling Center.
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, much of the discussion regarding mental health services has focused on the commitment process. However, the mental health system has major gaps in its entirety starting from the lack of short-term crisis stabilization units to the outpatient services and the highly important case management function, which strings together the entire care for an individual to ensure success. These gaps prevent individuals from getting the psychiatric help when they are getting ill, during the need for acute stabilization, and when they need therapy and medication management during recovery.
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http://www.governor.virginia.gov/Tem...FullReport.pdf
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