This technical report is advocacy for state psychiatric hospitals to be a vital part of the
continuum of recovery services that should be integrated with a robust set of community …

Objectives This analytical review is intended to update the author's earlier writings on the
position of the state mental hospital within the spectrum of services for long-term mental …

State hospitals were once the most prominent components of US public mental health
systems. But a major focus of mental health policy over the past fifty years has been to close …

Conventional wisdom views state psychiatric hospitals as a problem as much as a solution
in the fight against mental illness. The legacy of the historic shortcomings of these hospitals …

The authors emphasize that the future of state mental hospitals should be considered only in
the context of a unified system of care and treatment of the mentally ill. They discuss …

OBJECTIVE: The acute care psychiatric hospital industry has been challenged by managed
care, government policies, and marketplace competition to control rising costs. This study …

In Massachusetts there is a growing trend to transfer both direct and indirect mental health
service delivery from civil mental hospitals to prison facilities. Three factors associated with …

What will be the future of public mental hospitals as community mental health center
programs expand? The authors suggest that their emerging role lies in joining the …

The authors make the case for expanding the national discussion of inpatient psychiatric
beds to recognize and incorporate other vital components of the continuum of care in order …

Three decades after the deinstitutionalization movement began, treatment, rehabilitation,
and support for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness continue to shift from …