In today's editions of the Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian, the story:
Cuts muddle mental care releases
Here are excerpts:
DSHS acknowledges in its description of reductions
that those cut off from treatment likely will end up being paid for by the
government in other ways. They could clog mental health crisis centers,
emergency rooms and jails.….
But it’s unclear whether the Western
State patients under consideration would even be eligible for nursing homes,
said Rich Miller, president of the Washington Health Care Association – an
advocacy group for nursing and assisted-living homes.
And nursing home owners
might be reluctant to mix them with their other residents and train all their
employees how to deal with a very different population that would mix with the
current residents.
“That’s why places like Western State were created,”
Miller said, “because you’re providing a very specialized level of care.”
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