{"id":8192,"date":"2013-05-22T15:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2013-05-24T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:38:04","slug":"ogdensburg-wants-news-about-the-psych-center-the-states-not-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/05\/22\/ogdensburg-wants-news-about-the-psych-center-the-states-not-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogdensburg wants news about the psych center; the state’s not talking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York State Office of Mental Health Acting Commissioner Kristin Woodlock and her team listening to speakers from the North Country at today’s meeting at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in Ogdensburg. Photo: Julie Grant<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s a lot of speculation out there about the future of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center<\/a> in Ogdensburg. The NY Office of Mental Health is considering closing a number of state hospitals, saying that at 24, New York has more than 3 times that of any other state.<\/p>\n

Acting Mental Health Commissioner Kristin Woodlock visited Ogdensburg last week, as part of her \u201clistening tour\u201d<\/a> of hospitals, and she got an earful from the community<\/a> \u2013 including concerns about the possible loss of care for patients, and of more than 500 jobs.<\/p>\n

Woodlock said a decision could come as early as Monday. But Monday came and went without word from the state, and people want to know what\u2019s going happen.<\/p>\n

The Watertown Daily Times <\/a>speculates that \u201cno news could be good news\u201d for the Ogdensburg facility. Robert McNeil, chairman of the St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency said, \u201cI\u2019m optimistic.\u201d He said the Commissioner\u2019s visit was a success, \u201cThere was a lot of good testimony there.\u201d<\/p>\n

I spoke with Ben Rosen, spokesman for the NY Mental Health Office, this afternoon.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t give any information about what or when we might hear from the state, despite the community\u2019s anxiety.\u00a0 It sounds like no news isn\u2019t necessarily good or bad.\u00a0 It\u2019s just no news. We\u2019ll keep you posted as soon as we hear anything\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of speculation out there about the future of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4803,5650,9402,4862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}