{"id":767350,"date":"2026-06-28T19:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767350\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:25:21","slug":"staffing-and-capacity-major-issues-at-local-mental-health-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767350\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffing and capacity &#8216;major issues&#8217; at local mental health unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                The Mental Health Commission raised concerns about a &#8216;further decline&#8217; in the standard of the Sligo-Leitrim unit.\n            <\/p>\n<p>A Sinn F\u00e9in TD says staffing and capacity are major issues at a local mental health unit.<br \/>The Mental Health Commission raised concerns about a &#8216;further decline&#8217; in the standard of the Sligo-Leitrim unit.<\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac14 million facility was opened in 2020 to replace the &#8216;outdated&#8217; St Columba&#8217;s.<br \/>A four-day inspection last August found its compliance rate had dropped by 30 per cent in just two years.<br \/>Sligo-Leitrim TD Martin Kenny says there aren&#8217;t enough beds available at the unit:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mental Health Commission raised concerns about a &#8216;further decline&#8217; in the standard of the Sligo-Leitrim unit. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,272800,393,394],"class_list":["post-767350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-major-issues","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}