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The Moccasin Bend psychiatric hospital in Chattanooga can't stay where it is.But where it will go still hasn't been ...
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and others have advocated for the hospital to be relocated to an area off Moccasin Bend, with much of the discussion about building a new psychiatric facility on the ...
Moccasin Bend is a special piece of land now in ... of a dedicated national park on the bend advocate for the mental health hospital to move from the peninsula. In late 2021, Tennessee Gov.
Governor Bill Lee announced Thursday that the State of Tennessee will no longer move forward with plans to build a new psychiatric hospital on state-owned land at Moccasin Bend in Chattanooga.
14 months ago, advocates began a campaign against building a new psychiatric hospital at Moccasin Bend in Chattanooga. Now, Governor Bill Lee has announced that the state's plans to build on the ...
Kelly and local legislators are considering a different plan, to relocate the facility elsewhere and integrate the 107-acre psychiatric hospital property into the 956-acre Moccasin Bend National ...
A potential controversy over the location for a new mental health facility in our area has taken a turn. The state is looking ...
Moccasin Bend Psychiatric Hospital is balking at having police officers present when criminal defendants are given mental evaluations, saying it is a violation of the defendant's HIPPA privacy rights.
Relocating the psychiatric hospital also would free up the historic riverfront property to help complete the historic Moccasin Bend National Archaeological District. The new mental health hospital ...
The release said it was the first archaeological review conducted in the area ever since the Moccasin Bend Mental Health ... with plans to build a new mental health hospital on the site.
Doctors determined she needed a psychiatric hospital, but she did not have insurance. She was told she was No. 35 on the waiting list to get into Moccasin Bend, the nearest state-run psychiatric ...