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re: New Orleans is rapidly becoming a new city. rate of development is ridiculous.
Posted on 8/2/15 at 10:08 pm to BlueYoda
Posted on 8/2/15 at 10:08 pm to BlueYoda
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BlueYoda
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I'm pretty sure they have an 60 inpatient beds just for mental health patients.
According to the NYT article I read on August 1st, you're correct. It also indicates that this represents a 40% decrease in available beds for mental healthcare issues which is a STAGGERING drop from Charity levels.
On top of that, they'll only run 38 of them, which will represent a 62% reduction in mental healthcare beds in the new facility. Which-even if it operates at 100% capacity 100% of the time (which we know it won't)-is a flat our horrifying stat.
It makes the streets unsafe, the citizenry less healthy, and subjects people who have anywhere from issues forgetting to take their meds one afternoon to true critical mental illness issues to Orleans Parish Prison. In the year 2015, after spending a BILLION DOLLARS building a replacement for Charity, funneling these poor people through the prison system is inexcusable and an utter failure of the Administration and those behind the UMCNO.
This is from a guy who pulls the lever for the R consonant routinely.
It's a damn joke what we are doing to these people.
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And it will have far fewer beds for psychiatric patients than Charity, which had nearly 100 inpatient beds plus a 40-bed crisis intervention unit. The new hospital will have 60 psychiatric inpatient beds but will use only 38 to start, transferring patients from a facility that had been housing them since the storm.
This post was edited on 8/2/15 at 10:10 pm
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Posted on 8/2/15 at 11:02 pm to GFunk
It's a reduction from charity numbers, no doubt, but it is an increase from ilh numbers.
Posted on 8/2/15 at 11:29 pm to GFunk
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On top of that, they'll only run 38 of them, which will represent a 62% reduction in mental healthcare beds in the new facility. Which-even if it operates at 100% capacity 100% of the time (which we know it won't)-is a flat our horrifying stat.
They will open all 60. They are only opening 38 because the are only 38 patients at the current facility, Depaul. They will fill the other beds as necessary.
And, you left out an important part of the article.
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At the same time, dozens of new community clinics have opened, providing desperately needed primary and mental health care outside the hospital setting. The clinics occupy 60 sites in greater New Orleans, compared to a handful in 2004.
Acute mental health care is just a bandaid for the greater problem. The new clinics will do more to alleviate the problem then adding 40 more inpatient beds.
And if all goes to plan the hospital has the space and already has plans in place for two more inpatient towers in the next 5-10 years.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:47 pm to GFunk
It's still 60 MORE beds than we have now.
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