New mental health services leader picked

By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on Oct 23, 2009 | In News | 8 feedbacks »

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Gov. M. Jodi Rell has nominated the acting commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to take over the job permanently.

Patricia Rehmer has been acting commissioner since Thomas Kirk retired over the summer. Her nomination requires legislative approval.

The 49-year-old Rehmer has worked in mental health agencies for more than 25 years, including 10 years at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. She has been deputy commissioner since 2004.

Rehmer previously was chief executive officer of the Capitol Region Mental Health Center in Hartford, and worked for many years at the Institute of Living and Hartford Hospital.

Comment from: Independant Observer [Visitor] Email
I wonder if his agency will accept politicians into mental health rehab/treatment.
10/23/09 @ 16:08
Comment from: Glenna MacDonald [Visitor] Email
Please consider the release of John Cameron MacDonald.He is not an addict nor alcoholic and was aquited and is still being held at whiting,save the state some money and have him released to his family and we will see to it he goes to harbor health where he was going before the red tape swallowed him into the system.
~Peace Glenna~
10/23/09 @ 23:36
Comment from: Winnebago Warrior [Visitor] Email
She should start by examining all the heads of the legislature. She won't find anything in there.
10/24/09 @ 14:46
Comment from: worker [Visitor] Email
how about examining her own head first
10/26/09 @ 08:39
Comment from: GLEN K. DUNBAR [Visitor] Email · http://www.metopera.org
Will they treat you for FREE?
10/26/09 @ 15:30
Comment from: jonathan [Visitor] Email
This is a tough task. I wish her luck. There is a lot of mentally handicapped folk out there and the population is growing fast. It sucks but the mentally handicapped are a big expense for the regular humans. Should we really care this much?
10/26/09 @ 18:29
Comment from: barterman1955 [Visitor] Email
i remember when mentally challenged meant trying to finish the new york times crossword puzzle before you finished your morning coffee.now it means that you're retarded for using the term.i wonder how much money they're going to spend trying to convince the public that there's no such problem.
10/27/09 @ 09:59
Comment from: Jessice [Visitor]
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She works for the department of mental health and addiction services, meaning people that are mentally unsound ie crazy and people that have had addiction in the past or or still have them. NOT Department of Mental retardation aka DMR.
She is in charge of the people that service the clients in the community that have been living on the streets due to the Norwich Hospital closing or that need assistance dealing with their mental illness
10/27/09 @ 13:03

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