Jack Lessenberry

Perhaps the most horrific story of the summer was the Detroit News’s revelations of unsanitary conditions at the now for-profit group of hospitals known as the Detroit Medical Center. These included dirty instruments, old blood and bone fragments in tubes that were being used for a baby’s operation and other similar horrors. That was more than bad enough. But a group of mental health advocates are now concerned that the Snyder Administration wants to partly or totally privatize mental health services.