Wainwright: AMHC has access to $7.2M -Elizabeth City (NC) Daily Advance

EDENTON — The state’s top mental health official offered private mental health-care providers as well as employees and patients of Albemarle Mental Health Center a ray of hope Wednesday night, announcing that the agency, believed to be fiscally insolvent, still has access to $7.2 million in state funding.

Leza Wainwright, co-director of the N.C. Division of Mental Health, said she couldn’t promise that everything wrong at AMHC would be better overnight. But she did pledge the state’s efforts to restore fiscal control to AMHC and ensure quality services for its patients.

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