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good, Mrs. Gorman affirmed. “But we went too far. We closed down too many wings of too many state hospitals without providing for increased services (day treatment, residential and job training) in the communities.”
As for the added burden placed on Community Services by the 550 mentally ill and mentally retarded released from state hospitals and returned to this Planning District in the last five years, the board has no way to alleviate this demand or to change the deinstitutionalization program, Mrs. Gorman pointed out. “We have no control over the people who are sent to the state hospitals. We have no power to keep them in. ” .
She relayed ‘to the supervisors an adage shared by the local sheriffs departments who must transport those who are committed and the mental health professionals who are balled by law enforcement officers in the middle of the night to certify a patient for commitment: “Often, the patient beats the sheriff back to the county."
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