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introduction washington state s public mental health system is comprised of a complex ... network of state agencies law enforcement agencies ... support networks and most importantly mental health centers and state/community ... treatment for residents suffering from mental illness for the system to provide ... adequate appropriate and cost effective mental health care all of its constituent ... s safety are placed in jeopardy the state s mental health system is currently ... hospitals providing acute inpatient mental health services low hospital payments ... ability to continue providing inpatient mental health care more and more hospitals are ... must downsize or close their inpatient mental health units because the financial ... drain they pose threatens their entire facilities these closures increase the pressures ...

community hospital inpatient mental health beds 2000-2005 inpatient mental ... health beds source washington state hospital association inpatient mental ... for most community hospitals providing care to low income patients is a fundamental ... social and economic well being of the state in order to continue serving their ... and to maintain and improve its facilities unfortunately payments for inpatient ... mental health services not only provide no ... the cost of providing treatment the washington state hospital association wsha ... by payer for their inpatient mental health units the responses clearly ...

doors inadequate payment for inpatient mental health services is only part albeit a ... of the negative impact of the public mental health system on hospitals the ... patients through the continuum of mental health care in a timely and appropriate ... all hospitals those with inpatient mental health units and those without entering ... the system patients suffering mental health crises and in need of assistance ... from the public mental health system are identified in a ... may be found to have underlying mental illness as their most immediate ... become the providers of last resort for mental health care along with many other ... the setting when a county designated mental health profesional determines that a ... commitment the first step in the public mental health system is inpatient evaluation ...

are referred to eastern or western state hospitals for 90-day or longer ... treatment but continue to need ongoing care are discharged to residential treatment ... facilities washington state officials have made a conscious ... bed capacity at eastern and western state hospitals on the premise that care can ... beds have been eliminated at western state hospital and 30 have been eliminated at ... eastern state hospital while such a shift from state ... hospitals to community residential care may be clinically and financially ... justifiable the state has failed to fund development of ... and concluded that c]ompared to peer states washington has substantially under- ... invested in community residential care 1 unfortunately this has not prevented ... bed closures at the state hospitals the state mental health division s expanded ...

their fair share of the health care safety net the state must do its part ... as well and with respect to mental health it has failed to meet its ... payments to hospitals closure of state hospital beds lack of investment in ... a disproportionate share of the public mental health burden even closing inpatient ... mental health units cannot fully relieve ... rooms are not equipped to provide mental health treatment nor can community ... freestanding evaluation and treatment facilities provide all of the care both mental and ... a need for acute short term inpatient mental health treatment community hospitals ... the logical appropriate sites for such care the state must do its part to support ... this vital link in the public mental health system the solution during the ... legislative session wsha supported the state mental health division s 2005-2007 ...