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Boarding Home Inspections

Boarding Home Inspections

03 Oct 2005


By
Tanya Ott

Hundreds of people with mental illness live in boarding homes scattered across the Birmingham metro area, and starting this week, there's effectively no inspection program to make sure those homes are clean and safe. The public health department has run out of money, and an October 1st deadline for new funding came and went over the weekend. Now, mental health advocates are ratcheting up their campaign to get local leaders to foot the bill.

Click on the following link to hear the entire story:


http://www.wbhm.org/News/2005/boardinghomes.html

Copyright 2005, Used with permission from WBHM.

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