Mental Health Patients’ Confidential Information Was On State Website More Than 3 Months

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, call the Maine Crisis Hotline at 888-568-1112. Confidential information about patients receiving mental health and addiction treatment services was available on a Maine government website for more than three months, a state Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson said Friday. At least 20 documents on the state government website contained names and, in some cases, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers, for those receiving mental health and substance use treatment, the Bangor Daily News found last month. The documents, all from 2013, 2014 and 2015, included reports of patients’ violent and suicidal behavior, descriptions of situations that landed patients in the hospital, and some patients’ and family members’ complaints about health care providers. The reports were available on the government website from Dec.