AltaPointe Health System physicians packed a Mobile City Council meeting to oppose a proposed $200,000 cut to the nonprofit’s city funding, which would be redirected to Veterans Recovery Resources under a councilman’s budget amendment.
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Crime
How a Downtown Mobile Attack Exposed Cracks in the Region’s Mental Health and Court Systems
A downtown Mobile attack during last week’s storm has drawn scrutiny to how the accused, a man with a long arrest record and untreated schizophrenia, kept cycling through the local jail, courts and mental health system without being stopped.
Baldwin County
AltaPointe CEO Urges Congress to Overhaul Mental Health System After String of Mass Shootings
The head of AltaPointe Health Systems, which serves Mobile, Baldwin and Washington counties, is calling on Congress to pass mental health reform legislation, arguing chronic underfunding and stigma — not gun policy alone — are at the heart of the nation’s response to mass violence.
Local News
AltaPointe, Mobile County Probate Court Still at Odds Over Doctor Testimony Rules
A brief agreement between AltaPointe Health System and Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis over whether psychiatrists must testify at involuntary commitment hearings has unraveled, with attorneys for both sides still negotiating over who can appear in doctors’ place.