Do comprehensive community mental health services reduce admissions to state hospitals?
A recent Nader report says no. Surprisingly few studies have documented the success of …

Objective: This study examined the relationship between the availability of mental health
outpatient services provided by 40 publicly funded community service boards (CSBs) and …

In a study to refine the methodology for evaluatitig the impact of community mental health
centers on state hospital admissions, data were gathered on hospital patients' demographic …

To test the success of the Community Mental Health Centers Program goal of reducing state
hospital utilization, changes in state mental hospital resident and admission rates were …

What happens to community mental health centers when federal funding declines and then
ends? Analysis of service utilization patterns over a five year period for a cohort of …

A private psychiatric hospital that developed comprehensive community mental health
services was able to reduce admissions to state hospitals from its catchment area to two …

#{149} In1973 we made an analysis of mentally ill admissions to state hospitals from rural
counties in Minnesota. We wanted to test the hypothesis that counties in which mental health …

OBJECTIVE: This three-year study examined the impact of closing a state psychiatric
hospital in 1991 on service utilization patterns and related costs for clients with and without …

Many community mental health centers have bad to operate with less funding in the past
several years, especially since the advent of block grant funding. Evidence is now …

The authors describe a study of admissions to the Texas state hospital system from the
catchment area of a community mental health center in San Antonio and from the …