Very true. Alaska had a 250 bed facility built a few decades ago. It was to handle all the needs statewide. Somehow it became a 125 bed facility. Currently there are about 10 beds for mental crisis patients. The place was shuttered last year due to improprieties of one manner or another committed by the company running the place. Brought back to life a few weeks later, no larger, or better run it seems
clay > On Feb 4, 2020, at 3:28 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Actually during the Ronnie Rayguns administration the Powers That Be were > convinced that involuntarily housing the mentally-ill violated their civil > rights; hence, the facilities were shut down and the patients were allowed to > make their own (usually bad) choices, which were most generally bad given > their conditions. Never saw that coming... > > This has created a situation now where there are few options for taking care > of people with severe mental illness (recognizing that the old methods were > often not particularly humane). > > --FT _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
