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State Hospitals As “The Most Integrated Setting According to Their Needs” EDITORIAL State Hospitals as “the Most Integrated Setting According to Their Needs” Barry W. Wall, MD J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 41:484–7, 2013 In its 1999 Olmstead v. L.C. decision, the U.S. Su- persons with mental illness. Funding increases to im- preme Court ruled that states have an obligation to prove the quality and continuum of community- provide services to individuals with disabilities in based treatment, while the number of state mental “the most integrated setting appropriate to their hospital beds continues to decline, in the belief that needs,” as the unjustified institutionalization of peo- psychiatric treatment should take place in the com- ple with disabilities is discriminatory under the munity and not in hospitals. On the inpatient side, Americans With Disabilities Act.1 Increasing the increasing quality remains important, but largely in quantity and improving the quality of outpatient an effort to discharge and cut the number of beds. mental health services makes a difference in the lives However, increasing the number of state mental hos- of persons with mental illness, and federal leverage pital beds should be as important as improving qual- helps states achieve this aim. For example, in July ity, to provide persons with mental illness the most 2013, New York State agreed to settle a long-running integrated setting appropriate to their needs when lawsuit under Olmstead, which will allow about that need is the hospital. 4,000 persons with serious mental illness to move out I present a brief review of the continued decline in of adult group homes into their own apartments “in the number of state mental hospital beds. I then re- the most integrated setting according to their view the commonly acknowledged consequences of needs.”2 This consent decree will increase access to this decline. In addition to asserting that increased housing and to cultural and social activities for per- funding should continue to focus not only on quality sons with mental illness, consistent with recovery but also on increasing the number of state hospital principles. Quality and quantity of care both matter beds, I assert that the ability of hospitals and rehabil- on the outpatient continuum, to provide persons itation and recovery facilities at times to be the most with mental illness the most integrated setting appro- integrated setting capable of meeting the needs of priate to their needs. persons with mental illness is another justification to In contrast, many states struggle with an imbal- increase the number of state mental hospital beds. ance between the quantity and quality paradigms Many individuals whose needs would best be met in within state mental hospitals, to the detriment of the integrated setting of the institution are ineligible for admission in the current era because census lim- Dr. Wall is Director, Forensic Service, Eleanor Slater Hospital, Cran- ston, RI, and Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Hu- its, funding cuts, and the legal classification of per- man Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Provi- sons currently residing in state mental hospital beds dence, RI. Address correspondence to: Barry W. Wall, MD, 184 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02906. E-mail: barrywwall@ preclude admission on the basis of need. A needs- gmail.com. based approach to state mental hospital bed usage Disclosures of financial or other potential conflicts of interest: None. should be part of a well-funded mental health system. 484 The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Wall By improving quality and number of state mental to a completely involuntary civil system governed by hospital beds, hospitals and outpatient facilities can the rules of the civil commitment statute or the crim- better serve as the most integrated settings based on inal courts.9 The impact of forensic hospitalization patient need, not legal classification. takes away beds for civil use, and the remaining civil beds are generally used for involuntary admission of The Continued Decline in State Hospital persons with chronic, severe, persistent psychosis or Beds mania, many of whom are unaware of their illnesses and are dangerous to themselves or others, such that The number of state mental hospital beds contin- 3 they cannot function outside of a hospital. ues to decline significantly. Lamb and Weinberger The 2012 TAC report characterizes the current reported that between 1955 and 2000, the number status of state mental hospital bed usage as follows: of state mental hospital beds decreased from 339 to 22 per 100,000 population. In a 2008 non-peer- In the United States, many states are in the process of reviewed article published by the Treatment Advo- dismantling the system whereby they provided treatment for individuals with acute or chronic severe mental illness. cacy Center (TAC), an expert panel determined that This system, operational for almost 200 years, has provided 50 public psychiatric hospital beds per 100,000 pop- protection (asylum) for those who are mentally ill as well as ulation are needed to sustain a minimum level of protection of the public from the consequences of un- care.4 From 1955 to 2005, there was a 95 percent treated mental illness. Its abolition, leaving virtually no public psychiatric beds for the subgroup of severely men- decrease in the number of state mental hospital beds. tally ill individuals who cannot be successfully treated in the A more recent TAC publication reported that per community, no matter how comprehensive the services, is capita state mental hospital bed populations fell fur- therefore a profound change. It is taking place with little forethought and even less regard for consequences [Ref. 5, ther between 2005 and 2010. By 2010, the nation’s first paragraph of Discussion section]. state mental hospital beds had declined to 1850 lev- 5 els, which is about 14 per 100,000 population. In Another unintended consequence is restriction in addition, 13 states closed 25 percent or more of their the ability to admit persons to state mental hospitals total state hospital beds from 2005 to 2010. Al- who do not meet strict legal criteria under involun- though 10 states increased their total hospital beds, tary civil commitment or criminal statutes or even they continued to provide less than half the beds some who meet the commitment criteria. Because TAC considers minimally adequate. That being said, there are not enough state mental hospital beds, the current state mental hospital bed counts do not re- few remaining beds are reserved only for those most flect capacity in the acute/private system that absorbs dangerous to self or others or for those in criminal some of the patient need, so what may appear as courts. diminished resources for public beds may mean re- sources shifted to both private and public beds. Quality Remains Important Consequences of the Decline Similar to the New York outpatient treatment Despite the shifting of resources to private beds consent decree, states are invested in using federal and community-based care, the overall loss of state leverage to improve mental hospital bed quality, even hospital beds affects the entire health care system. as they cut, eliminate, or otherwise limit admission to Individuals in acute or chronic disabling psychiatric such beds. This year, Geller and Lee10 reviewed the crises increasingly end up in hospital emergency de- benefits and drawbacks states experience in negotiat- partments, jails, and prisons. Service calls, transpor- ing Department of Justice investigations of alleged tation, and security utilization for people in psychi- civil violations in institutions. States can face difficult atric crisis strain public safety resources. The number legal challenges from the Department of Justice un- of persons with mental illness who are homeless has der the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, increased.5–7 The courts, having taken away discre- but making deals with federal agencies helps procure tionary authority from psychiatrists, require more, more inpatient resources to improve quality. The not less, psychiatric input, and generating the resul- problem is that quality improvement occurs without tant forensic reports and providing testimony strains a concomitant increase in number of beds, in large mental health resources.8 Many systems have moved part because of efforts to depopulate state hospitals Volume 41, Number 4, 2013 485 State Hospital Services for the Mentally Ill for cost-shifting reasons. States want to improve care dard could help certain patient populations regain and treatment in their mental hospitals to effect access to the integrated setting of the institution. Use shorter and fewer inpatient lengths of stay and longer of this standard would allow for a continual flow of outpatient lengths of community-based care. This is admissions and discharges based on patient need. a desirable goal, but having too few beds, even of the The criteria for admission should be broader and highest quality, causes the loss of an important func- based on clinical need, not on narrow interpretations tion of the institution. of dangerousness. Hospital stays should be of suffi- cient length to stabilize persons with mental illness to allow an avoidance of future admissions. Funding Discussion should look to the continuum of who could benefit States endeavor to expand outpatient mental from longer stays and the additional multidisci- health treatment modalities, emphasizing quality plinary supports and assessments that hospitals can and recovery ideals. In contrast, as many states work provide. Inpatient psychiatric hospitalization with to improve the quality of mental hospital services, the targeted objectives should parallel how the medical number of state mental hospital beds continues to system looks at the hospital level of care. decline. Increasing the quality of inpatient state hos- It is appropriate for states to focus on a treatment pital services while cutting the number of beds is philosophy to decrease hospitalization, even if for paradoxical and problematic.
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