{"id":54090,"date":"2015-02-05T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=54090"},"modified":"2015-02-05T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:08:09","slug":"need-not-apply-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/05\/need-not-apply-2\/","title":{"rendered":"mental health workers requiring salary need not apply&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"big\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/whnt.com\/2015\/02\/04\/breaking-alabama-psychiatric-services-to-shut-doors\/\">Alabama Psychiatric Services to close this month, thousands of patients impacted&nbsp;statewide<\/a> \t\t<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"big\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">WHNT News 19 at 5:00 p.m.<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"middle\">by David Kumbroch<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"small\"> February 4, 2015<\/div>\n<p>   <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"175\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/broke.gif\" \/>HUNTSVILLE, Ala. [WHNT] &ndash; Alabama Psychiatric Services confirms it  will end services on February 13, 2015. &nbsp;It cites a decrease in funding  from Blue Cross\/Blue Shield and a change in how the insurance company  covers behavorial health services as the reason for the closure. An employee at the Madison facility confirmed the closure earlier  today, as did several patients. &nbsp;The Madison employee tells us the  closure of APS&rsquo; statewide offices could impact as many as 200,000  patients. In north Alabama, APS also has facilities in Cullman, Decatur and  Florence. &nbsp;The Madison location is on Lanier Road off Hughes Road. The company posted this message on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">apsy.com<\/a><\/strong> on Wednesday afternoon:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">&ldquo;After over thirty years of service to our clients for their  behavioral health needs, APS will be ending services on Friday, February  13, 2015. It has been our privilege to have offered services to our  clients across Alabama, and to have been a critical part of the  behavioral health service delivery system across our great state. At the  request of Blue Cross\/Blue Shield, we opened offices throughout  Alabama. Unfortunately, due to a decrease in funding from Blue  Cross\/Blue Shield of Alabama and a change in its model of providing  behavioral health, we are not able to continue our mission. We would  have liked to have given both our patients and our employees more notice  of our closure, but this was not possible under the circumstances. APS  is making every effort to provide care and transition patients to other  providers and our own providers who join or develop their own practices.  APS is cooperating fully with other organizations to facilitate the  resolution of this intense period.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">APS did not mail out letters. &nbsp;We&rsquo;re told there were several copies  of this two-page letter available&nbsp;for patients to read in the Madison  facility [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/localtvwhnt.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/page1.jpg\">page 1<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/localtvwhnt.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/page2.jpg?w=300\">page 2<\/a>]. WHNT News 19 is told several doctors at the Madison branch will form their own practice.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">A major resource lost from my wife&#8217;s hometown area. This is the inevitable consequence of the state of medical reimbursement for mental health services these days. I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s taken so long to arrive, particularly in poor states with ultra-conservative legislatures and impoverish<strong><strike>ed<\/strike><\/strong>ing Medicaid and third party systems. Programs training mental health workers in these areas [like where I live now] would do well to only accept applicants who are independently wealthy do-gooders&#8230; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Psychiatric Services to close this month, thousands of patients impacted&nbsp;statewide WHNT News 19 at 5:00 p.m. by David Kumbroch February 4, 2015 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. [WHNT] &ndash; Alabama Psychiatric Services confirms it will end services on February 13, 2015. &nbsp;It cites a decrease in funding from Blue Cross\/Blue Shield and a change in how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54090"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54094,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54090\/revisions\/54094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}