Summary
CHESAPEAKE Regional Medical Center's announcement that it will shut down its geriatric psychiatry unit provided more bad news to those who can least afford it. For everyone else, it offered yet another shameful reminder of how broken the system is for people grappling with mental illness.
The Chesapeake facility, designed to treat seriously ill and dangerously vulnerable patients aged 55 or older, is closing its doors, but not because of a lack of demand. And not because too many other facilities are competing to fill empty beds.See the full content of this document
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Hospital Closes Beds and Options
Instead, as The Pilot's Elizabeth Simpson recently reported, the Geropsychiatric Unit will close because it has lost $1.5 million ...
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