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.