Georgia agrees to fixed deadlines for competency evaluations and hospital admission
Facing threatened litigation from the Georgia Advocacy Office and the Southern Center for Human Rights, Georgia's Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities agreed to hit fixed benchmarks — 30-day evaluations and 30-day waits for restoration admission — by November 2029. At the time of the agreement, roughly 697 people were waiting in jail an average of 187 days for services.
The deal came just months before the state broke ground on its first new state psychiatric hospital in more than fifty years, a project aimed directly at the capacity shortfall behind those wait times.
Source: Statement on Agreement Between DBHDD and GAO/SCHR Regarding Forensic Services — Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
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