Getting A Bead On Psych Beds

The supply of inpatient psychiatric beds is a moving target—both how many current beds are available and how many are needed. There are frequent stories about lack of available beds (see Bill Aims To Free Up Mental Health Beds, End ER Waits By Increasing Housing and Report Reveals Fewer Beds And More Pressure On Colorado's State Mental Health System). This is happening at the same time there are reports of empty beds (see S.F. Added Hundreds Of Mental Health And Addiction Treatment Beds. So Why Are Many Sitting Empty?) and psychiatric bed closures (see Palomar Health To . . .