{"id":90666,"date":"2019-12-04T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=90666"},"modified":"2019-12-04T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T21:43:48","slug":"l-a-county-approves-pilot-program-to-add-500-mental-health-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/12\/04\/l-a-county-approves-pilot-program-to-add-500-mental-health-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County approves pilot program to add 500 mental health beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-84864\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hospital-bed-1-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hospital-bed-1-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hospital-bed-1.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a two-year pilot program to add 500 mental health beds countywide.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended the pilot program, calling it &#8220;a critical first step of rapid expansion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An October report by the Department of Mental Health found that county psychiatric emergency rooms are severely overcrowded, with patients sometimes waiting days for a hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of the pilot program is to get people the care they need to keep them out of a jail system that has become one of the nation&#8217;s largest mental health institutions. Roughly one-quarter of homeless individuals countywide have a serious mental illness and cycle in and out of hospitals and jail without receiving care to put them on a path to recovery, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>More hospital beds will not be enough to resolve the problem, DMH Director Dr. Jonathan Sherin told the board. More &#8220;step-down&#8221; residential care beds and a network of cooperation will also be required.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The effort isn&#8217;t just about increasing the number of beds, it is also increasing the quality of care and creating a network between all of our hospitals, whether they are county hospitals or private hospitals, so we can efficiently use those beds,&#8221; Sherin said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a two-year pilot program to add 500 mental health beds countywide. Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended the pilot program, calling it &#8220;a critical first step of rapid expansion.&#8221; An October report by the Department of Mental Health found that county psychiatric emergency rooms are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":84864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,1496,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}