Put mental health needs ahead of profits
This is in response to the Daily Herald article, “Mental health advocates decry planned service cuts, layoffs at Arlington Heights hospital.”
The article states, “In an interview with the Daily Herald Tuesday afternoon, Gina Sharp, Endeavor’s system executive of the behavioral health service line, attributed the decision to declines in inpatient psychiatric admissions coupled with the need to cut costs across the hospital system.”
Translation: we can’t make money off helping people in crisis in Arlington Heights (The City Of Good Neighbors that already minimally tolerates supportive housing) and the surrounding areas.
Translation: Mental illness isn’t the cash cow that cancer and other illnesses are.
Translation: we want to enrich ourselves further at the most vulnerables’ expense.
Decline in inpatient psychiatric admissions? I don’t think so. So now, when a loved one in the area is in the midst of a psychiatric break, they’ll just grab an Uber in their delusional state and go all the way to Evanston.
Absolutely ridiculous. Shame on you, Northwest “Community” and “Endeavor” Health.
“Endeavor” to do better for this “community,”not your bottom line.
Louis S. Guagenti
Arlington Heights