> It’s good to see the Legislature putting pressure on the Department of
> Human Services to expedite the release of psychiatric patients and
> developmentally disabled residents who don’t require
> institutionalization from state psychiatric hospitals. Now let’s see
> some action.
>
> At an Assembly budget committee hearing Tuesday, lawmakers criticized
> the department’s failure to adequately address the long waiting list
> for group homes or supervised apartments, the poor care being provided
> at state psychiatric hospitals — problems outlined in the ongoing
> Press series “Trouble at Ancora” — and the excessive overtime
> allocation requested by Human Services.
>
> For more go
tohttp://badpsych.com/2008/05/08/human-services-must...
