VENTURA COUNTY: Superagency Blasted as ‘Ill-Conceived’
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Dr. Robert Liberman, professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine, blasts the Ventura County Board of Supervisors for attempting to merge its Behavioral Health Department and the Human Services Agency into one "superagency." He writes, "However well intentioned it is, ill-conceived and seemingly arbitrary decision making that combines dissimilar services and results in the loss of $15 million is medically unsound and antithetical to the well-being and interests of not only the seriously mentally ill but the taxpayer as well" (Liberman, 1/24).
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