Status of $1.6 million in state funding is unclear
Haines’ mental health care needs aren’t being met, wrote Haines Borough Mayor Doug Olerud in an Aug. 18 letter to Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital. Some residents have had to wait two months to receive care, Olerud wrote, asking that Bartlett provide assistance, as it did after the December landslide.
“Our response is absolutely yes to the request,” Bartlett’s chief behavioral health officer Bradley Grigg told…

