What sorts of patients will be treated in the new facilities?
When the new psychiatric facilities open, the existing hospital population will be moved into them. For the most part they will be placed in the facility that is closest and most accessible to family and friends in the community to which a patient will eventually return. State-operated psychiatric facilities deliver treatment and care to three types of patients: those who are committed by a court after finding they are guilty of a crime except for insanity; those whose mental illness causes them to be a danger to themselves or others; and those whom a court determines need mental health treatment until they are prepared to participate in their own defense at trial. No children or adolescents are treated at the hospital.
