To the Editor,

It is upsetting and confusing that Our community has allowed Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare to terminate its program that helps pay for patients with no insurance recieve vital mental healthcare!

Effecitve November 1, 2009 a large number of patients will be tossed to the side like they don’t matter because of no insurance coverage, Further more these are patients which some have serious mental illness.

This is just showing that Crossroads Doesn’t care about its community at all. They are also showing their inabilty to manage our local mental health clinics, I contacted the state which gives Crossroads Tax money to assist the local community in which we have patients with no insurance and the state said crossroads can do as they see fit with it. AS THEY SEE FIT??? This is an outrage and I can’t believe our community is allowing them to do this, especially to those who need help the most! Crossroads states they are creating classes to help those patients, last thing they need is classes,they need to maintain the therapy and med appointments, When I called yesturday to get transferred to this new program I was placed on a waiting list, and was told they didn’t know when they would get back in contact with me, that they are overwhelmed with patients needing this service, I was told that they had a meeting about this very thing, how they are gettong overwhelmed with these calls and not enough space for the patients. Our community needs to Speak up and demand Crossroads reinstate the monies back to the local clinics so the patients will get the care they so desperately need and deserve!

I thought it was the rights of those facing mental illness to get the same care and respect as other patients, regardless of ability to pay??? Well I guess Crossroads is exempt from following that law too.

Seems Crossroads is Good at making up their own rules to follow and our community and state allow it. Sad, Sad indeed.



Chuck Dixon

Mount Airy