Another Massachusetts health care facility closing.

         Fall River, a small mental health home is closing doors in as little as two weeks. After a deal made with Vinfen and another company fell through. Citing a lack of money coming in, the staff be looking for jobs elsewhere now, many still in mental health care. This made public not to long ago, is another in the string of facility closings plaguing Massachusetts health care system. While it does not yet seem to be that "the sky is falling," it is another troubling sign of the changes in healthcare. Already there is a shortage of beds for mentally unstable as well as in the addiction treatment centers. What this means long-term, maybe not too much but it will also affect one other facility on the Cape.
     
        The Community Crisis Stabilization Unit is a non-locked mental health facility located in a nondescript building on a busy street in Fall River. It is a small facility with only a handful of beds but a much-needed facility for those in the area. Talking to one of the patients there, it seems that the staff there are much respected and the place was a place many would choose to go to if they had the option of having to go anywhere.