Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina all earned D grades in a national report card prepared by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
The states were graded in four categories including Health Promotion and Measurement, Consumer & Family Empowerment, and Community Integration and Social Inclusion. Financing & Core Treatment/Recovery Services was weighted as 45% of the grade.
NAMI gave the U.S. as a whole a D grade in the report, titled “Grading the States 2009: A Report on America’s Health Care System for Adults with Serious Mental Illness.”
Georgia earned C grades in three of the four categories, while North Carolina and South Carolina earned two Cs. For information, visit www.NAMI.org.
The states were graded in four categories including Health Promotion and Measurement, Consumer & Family Empowerment, and Community Integration and Social Inclusion. Financing & Core Treatment/Recovery Services was weighted as 45% of the grade.
NAMI gave the U.S. as a whole a D grade in the report, titled “Grading the States 2009: A Report on America’s Health Care System for Adults with Serious Mental Illness.”
Georgia earned C grades in three of the four categories, while North Carolina and South Carolina earned two Cs. For information, visit www.NAMI.org.
