Yes. This. Just like w every other social issue, NH has known for decades this was a problem. 10 years ago a state mental health plan was developed that didn’t get carried out. NH will never do anything it should unless it’s forced. I also work in the ED and applaud this decision because DHHS is like a child who needs a parent to ensure they’re doing their homework and who’s been given way too many second chances to be trusted. Hopefully the fed court stays on them to make sure the solution is also appropriate and not another half assed smoke screen

Thank you. Bless you, Cloudboy.

Cloudboy, is there supposed to be snow tomorrow in Strafford county? My weather app shows nothing but I keep seeing posts

It’s not irrational. Thinking it is is a privilege of someone that didn’t get it badly or have to caretake someone who got it badly. Over 60% of deer ticks in NH carry the bacteria that causes Lyme. No need to stay in your house, but definitely use precautions laid out on this thread.

Edit to add: other ticks besides deer ticks carry other nasty tick borne illnesses like babesia, erlichia, anaplasmosis, etc. you do the same stuff to prevent the other ones but just because you weren’t bit by a deer tick doesn’t mean you’re in the clear

Yup

Regardless, 3 years isn’t that long when it comes to the economy

Praise the invisible hand!!!

Still didn’t name which part you think is funny. Feel free to enlighten everyone w the funny part

Actual survey says that is the truth

I can’t tell if you’re joking or if you missed that the point of this thread is how awful the fb post is because DV is never funny

But wait, let the BPD save you!

We need to hire people with appropriate educations and pay them appropriately across all levels of this system. Most that work there aren’t even social workers. The state tells them they’re child welfare and mental health experts and they have no such education that reflects that. You need a pulse and a Bachelors degree in almost anything and you’re magically a child welfare expert, w the education requirement actually dropping as they contract out to private agencies to manage cases

Remember prior to 2016-2018 or so when they used to publish that in the initial story before the AG’s office and DHHS changed its internal policy and refused to release info about that part so they wouldn’t look as incompetent as they are instead of actually improving their services?

Cumulatively compared to the cost of continuing to repair outages and downed lines from storms, plus associated costs of not having power, year after year? Yes

My bill with a similar sized house and one person is $250 with the direct energy rate lock in at 13 cents over the summer for comparison- sadly, that sounds right

Far from it- been in the area for a decade and never had a positive ED experience yet. Urgent care hit or miss. Lol at whoever downvoted me for experiencing my own experience 🙄

Not to discourage a nurse from coming here, but as someone else in human services in NH, if you’re open to other places in New England, look first at Maine, VT, or MA. No state is perfect but NH is the worst in the region for human service based positions, and it’s continuing to trend down and not up. I stay here because it’s so bad and needs good people and I own a house here now, but boy do I fantasize about jumping the border sometimes with the uniquely NH stuff I encounter

WD inpatient wonderful, ED awful experiences every time. They have repeatedly turned me away and minimized symptoms that are serious and have then resulted in health crises and being admitted, having surgery, etc. and worst of all staying sick or in pain. I love every other type of service and care offered at WD but their ER just seems to really be a different story unfortunately, imo.

Agreed, and at a minimum the knowledge of it goes all the way to the top

Not a coincidence

NH law is always at least 20 years behind being accurate for our current times. In 2 decades this will be a relevant comment on a story like this

No need to make self-annihilating statements online, it’s ‘indescent’

Do you really not grasp how your kids 'descent schools' at the expense of the majority of the state having 'not descent' schools is going to eventually negatively affect you and your kids if you plan on staying in NH? Large pockets of this small state offering a second class education to kids who will become adults with poor educations translates into the state becoming an increasingly low economic area as a whole. That means less new business locating here to create enough 'descent' jobs, drops in property valuations, more crime, more untreated mental health and substance use issues, more money needed for social services, more homelessness, poor quality elderly and medical care, etc. If you're able to see beyond your immediate present, it directly benefits you and your kids to make sure other kids who will soon be adults running the economy and wiping your ass in the nursing home have a 'descent' education.

Will you be my financial advisor?

I know in early 2000s it happened repeatedly because they just kept shuffling the same upper leadership into different roles as if they all weren’t cut from the same cloth and then were shocked when another one who supported the others got in the same situation. Don’t know about now though