No way out of state hospitals for some elderly psychiatric patients
For Alison Land, necessity is the mother of intervention.
When Land became commissioner of Virginia’s mental health agency in December, she inherited a hospital system that by law is required to always have a bed ready for someone in crisis. Yet all of the psychiatric hospitals were packed, caring for more patients than they should, with fewer staff than they would want.
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