State psychiatric hospital bed counts hit a historic low

Medscape reported on new Treatment Advocacy Center data showing that state psychiatric hospital bed counts had fallen to their lowest level on record, with the coverage connecting the shortage directly to the forensic and competency-restoration bottlenecks documented throughout this backfill.

The finding updated the organization's own 2016 report on the same trend, showing the bed-closure pattern it first documented had continued rather than reversed over the intervening eight years.

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