National report finds psychiatric bed shortage continuing nationwide
The Treatment Advocacy Center's "Going, Going, Gone" report documented the continued closure of state psychiatric hospital beds nationwide since a 2012 baseline, arguing that per-capita bed counts had fallen far below the minimum threshold the organization considers necessary for adequate care.
The report is one of the earliest national-scale data sources in this backfill directly relevant to the hospital-capacity bottleneck behind competency-restoration waitlists in nearly every state covered here, and its bed-count methodology would be updated and cited again in a 2024 follow-up showing counts at a historic low.
Source: Going, Going, Gone: Trends and Consequences of Eliminating State Psychiatric Beds, 2016 — Treatment Advocacy Center, by Doris A. Fuller, Elizabeth Sinclair, Jeffrey Geller, Cameron Quanbeck, and John Snook
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