McKee proposes reviving Fatima’s long-term psychiatric bed unit to ease mental health crisis

McKee proposes reviving Fatima’s long-term psychiatric bed unit to ease mental health crisis

Gov. Dan McKee has proposed a $10 million budget amendment to open a 21-bed long-term behavioral health unit at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)Retooling a mostly-empty behavioral heath care wing at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital to take new, Medicaid-eligible patients would help clarify funding and oversight of the program, while easing the state’s critical shortage of mental health s…