Kaiser accused of not providing timely mental health treatment to patients

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Kaiser accused of not providing timely mental health treatment to patients
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In some of the darkest days, Barbara Mcdonald would turn to music. She says she would 'sit downstairs and hear her crying and I would play guitar.' Her daughter would cry, battered by her struggles with mental health.

In some of the darkest days, Barbara Mcdonald would turn to music. She says she would "sit downstairs and hear her crying and I would play guitar." Her daughter would cry, battered by her struggles with mental health.

Jorden also says Kaiser had helped in the past and had hoped therapists would be able to help him again. But she says all he got were phone numbers. Both their children were patients at Kaiser and with a strike by therapists entering its 8th week, Kaiser and its care have taken center stage. They are issues State Senator Scott Weiner hopes will be addressed by a bill he wrote, SB 221 that went into effect in July.

"For mental health, there's much more of an incentive financially for them to minimize treatment or delay treatment," explains Weiner, "And when they have to provide more timely, comprehensive access to mental health treatment, it does impact their bottom line. And that's why really we have some of these problems.

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