Mental Health Care in W.Va.

The Associated Press offers an update on mental health care services West Virginia, and the attempts to bring them up to par with an overall system that is often found lacking.

"The treatment of people with mental illness is at the heart of a court case pitting the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources against Kanawha County Circuit Judge Duke Bloom," AP's Tom Breen explains. "Based on a 1981 court order that required the state to establish a mental-health-care delivery plan, Bloom wants to look at how the state is providing services for people with traumatic brain injury, and also at persistent problems with overcrowding at the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital in Huntington."