Topic: mental health facility
$400,000 bill to staff unfinished mental health centre
Government spent more than $400,000 on staff for the yet-to-be-opened long-term mental health facility in East End in the first seven months of this year.
Timeline: The 9-year saga of Cayman’s mental health facility
After a decade of planning and almost five years of construction it is still not clear when the Poinciana Rehabilitation Centre, as it is now known, will finally open to patients.
Health minister: No timeline for opening of mental health facility
Health Minister Sabrina Turner says a "plethora of problems" had been found with the new mental health facility, delaying the opening of the long-awaited centre in East End.
Inside story: Homeless prisoners locked up with nowhere to go
Multiple criminal suspects, including some with mental health challenges, are being kept in prison for lengthy periods rather than being bailed or given community sentences because they are homeless.
New hope for mentally ill prisoners as archaic law set to be revised
A change to the law is planned to create new options for the treatment, monitoring and eventual release of people detained indefinitely in prison after being deemed ‘criminally insane’.
Mental health facility set for June completion
Work on Cayman’s first long-term residential mental health facility will finally be completed at the end of June after long delays, according to the health minister.
Fiona McDougall appointed Mental Health Commission chair
Fiona McDougall has been appointed as the new chair of the Cayman Islands Mental Health Commission.
Mental health facility opening depends on ‘final touches’
After years of planning, numerous setbacks and delays, construction of the Cayman Islands' first long-term mental health facility in East End has been completed, though "final touches" are needed before it can open.
Lamenting lack of mental health facility
I read with great interest and dismay your article titled, ‘East End mental health facility aims for March 2023 opening’.
How many times has this...
East End mental health facility aims for March 2023 opening
Efforts to complete a long-term residential mental health facility in East End are back on track, after a year-long delay caused by COVID-19
Lockhart: Work on mental health facility progressing
Work on Cayman's long-term residential mental health facility in East End is continuing to progress apace and is on track for opening at year's end, Mental Health Commission chairman Dr. Marc Lockhart confirmed.
No refuge for Cayman’s criminally insane
Earlier this year, Travis Webb was found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges he buried a child alive in 2018. Despite years of discussion around building a mental health facility in Cayman, however, options for people in his situation remain very limited.
Ground broken at mental-health facility
It is not easy getting to the site of the Cayman Islands' long-term residential mental-health facility.
