MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: New facility unable to accept more than 400 patients due to an inability to conduct Baker Act hearings

NORTH PORT — The viability of the new North Port Behavioral Health Center may be at risk just months after its opening.

The mental health facility, deemed “vital” and “tremendously beneficial” by local officials when it opened, has hit a stumbling block accepting involuntary patients.

The new center has been unable to give mandated Baker Act Hearings to involuntary patients due to a lack of coverage by local officials…

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