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Lack of long-term mental health beds is harming patients

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion April 09, 2023

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Acute care psychiatric hospitals are meant for short-term care, to stabilize someone with a mental health emergency. But in November, the state’s psychiatric hospitals had 110 patients who were ready to be discharged but who couldn’t be. That’s because the patients needed long-term inpatient care and the Department of Mental Health, the sole provider of such continuing care, didn’t have enough available beds.Shockingly, 62 of these... + full article



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