WNCT reports that the Greenville Police Department and the Pitt County Sheriff’s Department, in partnerships with Integrated Family Services, will soon launch Co-Responder Mental Health Response Programs. Under the GPD program, which starts next week, IFS professionals will work directly out of police headquarters and respond alongside law enforcement officers to situations involving possible mental health crises. The GPD program, which will be the first of its kind in eastern North Carolina, will begin next week, and the program at the Sheriff’s Department will begin later this spring. Keep reading for more news. F.A.S.T. The American Stroke Association uses the acronym FAST – face drooping; arm weakness ; speech difficulty; time to call 911 – to help inform the public about how to spot when someone is having a stroke and to emphasize that getting prompt treatment in that situation is essential. WFMY reports that North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper A.J. Ramirez recognized these symptoms in a man who had stopped near his patrol car in Rocky Mount to seek help and was able to get the man to Nash General Hospital in his patrol car in under 5 minutes. Forsyth Jail Suit. Back in 2019, the News Roundup noted the filing of a civil lawsuit against the medical provider for Forsyth County Jail, Correct Care Solutions LLC, by the family of a man who died there in 2017 due to complications from asthma while serving a DWI sentence. Deshawn Lamont Coley’s family alleges that jail medical staff had been negligent [...]
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