Acute Psychiatric Care in Marin County – A Plan Fails for Lack of Leadership

June 2002 Acute Psychiatric Care in Marin County - A Plan Fails for Lack of Leadership In June of 2000 the Marin County Board of Supervisors approved in concept a Strategic Plan to enhance emergency and acute care services for mentally ill patients in crisis, and to establish a permanent County-owned space for a detox center. The County Mental Health Board had already endorsed The Plan in January of that year. An increasing level of concern in the mental health community had developed around the adequacy and effectiveness of the system then in place, given the high number of psychiatric . . .