Closing and Reorganizing State Psychiatric Hospitals: 2003

March 2004 Closing & Reorganizing State Psychiatric Hospitals: 2003 This report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute, Inc (NRI) tracks the degree of psychiatric treatment capacity lost since 1970. After a move towards deinstitutionalization pushed by societal and fiscal pressure, many states have psychiatric bed shortages that result in improper treatment for individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI). Many of those with SMI were then housed in prisons and nursing homes because they were unable receive appropriate treatment in their communities. The major findings of this report are: Hospital closings continue, but at a . . .