| Mental health facility grows
As part of its plan to grow with the community, Manatee Glens has opened its first private-practice outpatient facility in East Manatee. Manatee Glens East provides mental health services for adults and children in its new office at 5233 Fourth Ave. Circle E. The office hosted an open house Tuesday afternoon. "Our board of directors has always been interested in meeting the needs of the community," said Mary Ruiz, president and CEO of Manatee Glens. The nonprofit provider of mental health and addiction services also is looking to expand north and south in Manatee County. The nonprofit has provided private counseling in a clinical setting for more than 20 years, Ruiz said, and now it's doing so in a new setting and location. Manatee Glens East has a handful of offices in which there are chairs and love seats, plus a desk for the therapist.
Methadone clients will be told to dose and dash
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau last week joined the East Side Alliance, police and methadone treatment centers in a policy agreement designed to prevent patients from hanging out and drug trafficking in the East 20s, Gramercy and the East Village.
The four major methadone programs in the area run by Bellevue Hospital Center, Beth Israel Hospital, Gramercy Park Medical Group and Greenwich House East have agreed to require their clients to leave the East Side Alliance area (between E. Third and E. 28th Sts. east of Sixth Ave.) immediately after receiving services. Clients found guilty of buying or selling drugs, including methadone, would be subject to being expelled from their programs.
This initiative will help the community address quality of life crimes, shoplifting, drug dealing and illegal drug use in the neighborhoods streets and many parks, said Morgenthau at the Aug.
Strawberry Sued For Back Taxes
The government has filed a lawsuit against the troubled baseball star, seeking to collect nearly a half-million dollars in unpaid taxes.
The complaint filed here Friday was years in the making. Strawberry was indicted in 1994 on federal tax evasion charges and pleaded guilty the following year.
He was sentenced to six months home confinement and ordered to repay $350,000 in taxes.
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Governor Rendell Says New Health Care Reform Measures Could be 'Prescription for Nation'
Governor Edward G. Rendell said the state today took its first steps in making health care more accessible and eliminating deadly hospital-acquired infections when he officially signed the first pieces of his Prescription for Pennsylvania health care reform plan into law. He also said people all over the United States could also benefit if states, or the federal government, follow the commonwealth's lead. Bills allowing advanced-practice nurses, physicians' assistants and dental hygienists to practice to the full extent of their education and training, and a bill to more aggressively attack and eliminate hospital-acquired infections were passed by the General Assembly. The Governor signed the bills during a ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing -- the same site where he initially announced the Prescription for Pennsylvania in January.
Pointed humor
When the Comedy Addiction Tour previews here, four former substance abusers will give the Crescent City a taste of their irreverent brand of recovery humor. The tour frontman, Mark Lundholm, has made a career of ridiculing the high life. The Comedy Addiction Tour is an outgrowth of a successful four-year run of his one-man show, "Addicted: A Comedy of Substance." He's trying out the new concept on a few "work-in-progress preview" dates before the official tour kicks off next month. Local showtimes are Monday at 8 p.m. at La Nuit Theater and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Howlin' Wolf. Lundholm's fear is that the New Orleans nightclub audience might shy away from comedy that highlights the hazards of over-imbibing. But he promises there will be no preaching.
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