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House subcommittee discusses psychiatric bed shortage, eyes quick policy changes for capacity
Summary
The Michigan House Oversight Committee on Public Health and Food Security held a working meeting to refine findings and recommend actions to address a statewide psychiatric bed shortage, including allowing private providers to flex beds between adolescent and adult populations and gathering data from mental health courts and sheriffs.
The House Oversight Committee on Public Health and Food Security met in a working session to refine findings and shape recommendations addressing Michigan's psychiatric bed shortage, Chair Bierlein said at the opening of the meeting.
"When someone in Michigan is in crisis, help is available. Not a wait list, not a jail cell, and not another roadblock," Chair Bierlein said, framing the subcommittee's goal of producing a final report and policy recommendations for the full oversight committee.
The subcommittee reviewed a packet summarizing months of testimony from judges, law enforcement, providers, advocates and families about limited inpatient psychiatric capacity and long waits for placement. Members discussed near-term options the subcommittee could recommend before pursuing longer-term system changes.
One proposal members singled out as potentially quick to implement would remove limits that now prevent some private facilities from…
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