Posted on 12/01/2011 9:45:57 PM PST by Nachum
The closing of the in-patient and outpatient programs is prompted by changes in the healthcare system.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center will close its in-patient and outpatient psychiatry programs over the next year, a move prompted by significant shifts in the healthcare system, hospital officials said.
The decision, which was announced Wednesday, was driven by hospital finances and changes to the delivery and organization ofhealthcare services nationwide.
"We are undergoing a massive transformation," said Mark Gavens, the chief operating officer. "It is natural for an organization to focus on what it does well and what it will continue to need to do well to serve the community."
Patients will gradually transition to other facilities, while the hospital will retain psychiatric services in the emergency room, cancer center and other clinical areas, officials said.
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The inpatient center at Cedars is (was) one of the major treatment centers for major psychiatric disorders in the city. It is a major blow that they are shutting it down. I have known at least one patient there. (she was suicidal).
It means more will end up in state run institutions, or even on the streets in the case of schizophrenia. Not good.
“It means more will end up in state run institutions,”
Nope, the NYS institutions have been virtually all closed. Strictly outpatient now in NYS. They rely on mentally ill people to take their meds properly on their own. Older mentally ill patients are stuck in nursing homes which are ill-equipped to deal with them.
That’s crazy!
nobamacare = stay healthy or die
In my rural area, a private *co-operative* psychiatric and psychological counseling service just opened. Nothing in the published news explained why. They are providers under Medicare and Medicaid, but I wonder just what the reimbursement rate is for these services?
We already have two other private psychiatric service practices serving a county of under 30k people. One is headed by an MD psychiatrist who mostly prescribes medications and the other employs mostly social workers in family practice and alcohol and drug abuse counselors, who are not paid very well.
Several years ago, a PhD psychologist told us that his hospital practice was comprised of mostly teenagers whose parents had insurance coverage. He added that the majority of these clients wanted to become artists working with recycled materials. He was hounded out of that job by his liberal co-workers who accused him of not being capable of compassion toward the poor. Today, he works in the state prison system, which is a huge salary cut,
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