Maryland Department Of Health & Mental Hygiene Final Forensic Workgroup Report

On August 31, 2016, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released this report on recommendations from the Forensic Services Work Group. The Forensic Services Work Group was charged with developing concrete recommendations on how to reduce unnecessary congestion in Maryland’s State hospital system. It was to do this by identifying strategies for providing improved efficiencies, maximizing appropriate throughput and providing for immediate system relief, as well as making longer-term recommendations that may require significant system-wide changes to prevent a similar backlog from occurring in the future.

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