[CheshireTheCat]

They might as well close. It's not as if Seattle is interested in doing anything constructive about mentally ill people. Instead, they want to give them more power.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m confused. I thought the whole city was a psychiatric ward.

[bort]

They certainly didn’t close it because of the lack of patients.

[Texas Eagle]

500 MILLION??? What.....the......hell?

[The Pack Knight]

UW Medicine announced last month it faced a $500 million shortfall because of unplanned funds spent on COVID-19 testing and equipment while simultaneously losing millions on elective procedures.

I wonder how much of that was wasted on ventilators.

[a fool in paradise]

Crazy people in the streets. It isn’t a shortage of people who need heavy sedation.

[bert]

Epidemic looniness

To many crazies

Too little money

[Jim W N]

It’s OK - the inmates are running the Seattle Asylum anyway.

[dfwgator]

Send 'em here...

[blueplum]

why? I can think of about 500 people in Chaz/chop that are in serious need

[petitfour]

Did they put lithium in the water during the plandemic and then yank it on cue? The crazies run wild in that state.

[jughandle]

Great. If any place needs them open now it’s Seattle.

[rockinqsranch]

If the Democrats were to win they’d close them down anyway as they did with all the other mental health.

Wondering if it is realized yet the left has started the “Socialist Revolution” already they have talked, and talked about is coming? It’s here. It’s what’s happening.

[Menehune56]

$500 MILLION for 10 beds? I think I see the problem...

[Noumenon]

Easy fix. Just crop dust the entire city with a mix of animal tranquilizers and Thorazine.

[KarlInOhio]

Maybe they can reorganize as the Seattle Sane Asylum. Hopefully they can find 14 sane people in Seattle looking for protection from the craziness of the city.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

[simpson96]

bookmark

[Vermont Lt]

My wife’s hospital is closing their inpatient psychiatric hospital.

The shortfalls come from a combination of things:

1. People with no insurance.
2. Crappy reimbursement from people WITH insurance.
3. Lack of qualified and willing psychiatrists.
4. Aging facilities that cannot be brought up to the new code standards without HUGE capital expenditures (that have all been put on hold since the COVID thing has them in the hole by tens of millions of dollars every month.)

The hospital layoffs are coming. And its going to be a while before they are “healthy” enough to come back.

And no, COVID payments from the government cover about 10% of a patient’s stay in the ICU. It is nowhere near enough coverage. Don’t believe what you read in web site comments.

[Bob434]

Meh- mental illness is now celebrated and rewarded with positions in government now- so who needs psychiatry any longer?

[AndyJackson]

Just move it to CHAZ.