APA task force report addresses nationwide psychiatric bed shortage
An American Psychiatric Association task force report analyzed the nationwide shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, including forensic and state-hospital beds, and proposed a simulation-model approach states could use to right-size their capacity.
The report offers useful national context for why competency-restoration admissions back up in so many of the states covered elsewhere in this backfill, treating the forensic bed shortage as one symptom of a broader inpatient psychiatric capacity crisis rather than a problem unique to the justice system.
Source: Report From American Psychiatric Association Addresses Psychiatric Bed Crisis in the U.S.; Explores New Model to Determine Community Needs — American Psychiatric Association
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