Claim: Gov. Kelly:  Kansas psychiatric hospital unit needs changes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Topeka State Hospital
text: a music and activity therapist in the general hospital population. One of the patients at Topeka State Hospital was Kenneth D. Waddell, who had been placed in the custody of state mental health authorities after having been found not guilty by reason of insanity for the charge of aggravated battery. Waddell was initially placed in the Larned State Security Hospital, but on April 1, 1987, he was transferred to the Topeka State Hospital where he was placed in the Adult Forensic Ward (referred to as the "AWL unit"), which was a special unit secluded from the other units because it

title: Bridgewater State Hospital
text: of dispersing the mentally ill from normal human experience . 2017 A major reform initiative by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker replaced management of the hospital and 4/5ths of the staff, granted a significant amount of turnaround funding, removed uniformed guards, and closed the "intensive treatment" unit where forced restraints and solitary confinement were used. After about five months with a new system of conflict prevention and resolution, a visiting "Boston Globe" reporter said that the institution felt more like a hospital than a scary prison after the reform. 2014 A Civil lawsuit was settled out of court regarding a patient's

title: KSB Hospital
text: included a two-stall ambulance garage. The ER had four treatment bays, two trauma bays and a new x-ray room. The spring of 1990 brought a newly remodeled cafeteria and vending machine area. In 1991, the psychiatry unit was downsized from 26 beds to 16 beds and moved from 3rd floor west to 2nd floor east. The new psychiatry unit featured improved safety and security features for patients and employees, and included a new eating area, therapy facilities, video monitoring, outside patio, patient lounge, and an isolation room. By 1991, the Medical Arts Clinic, founded by Dr. E. S. Murphy and

title: Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital
text: private, free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the Kansas City area, the other being the Research Psychiatric Center. In September 2008 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) terminated Two Rivers' participation in Medicare. United Health appealed the decision and eventually agreed to a settlement requiring Two Rivers to retain an outside monitor for six months. Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital Two Rivers Behavioral Health System is a psychiatric hospital located in Kansas City, Missouri. Opened in October 1986, the facility is operated as a private, for-profit, behavioral health hospital and is owned by Universal Health Services. Two Rivers Behavioral Health System

title: Topeka State Hospital
text: of law. The sole issue on appeal was whether that ruling was proper. They held that it was not, and remanded the case for further proceedings. In 1988, the hospital lost its accreditation to receive federal Medicare and Medicaid payments. The Health Care Financing Administration determined that the State had omitted two patients from its inspection of care review at the hospital, which appealed and lost. By the 1990s, the mental health movement was away from the hospital model and toward community-based programs. Partly because the community-based model appeared effective but mostly because it was cheaper, the Kansas Legislature decided

title: University of Missouri Health Care
text: operating video right at a patient’s bedside. Missouri Psychiatric Center, formerly known as Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center, offers short-term inpatient and outpatient treatment services for adults, adolescents and children with 57 inpatient beds. A 13-bed unit serves children and adolescents, while the remaining 44 beds are divided into two adult units. MUPC also offers an emergency room assessment unit to help with crisis stabilization and intake and discharge planning for patients. Psychiatrists also provide outpatient psychiatry care at MU Health Care's South Providence Medical Building, which opened in January 2015. Missouri Rehabilitation Center (MRC) was a 79-bed acute care hospital

title: Patuxent Institution
text: Parole and Probation. Now privatized, the program delivers a four-month treatment cycle to male and female inmates with significant substance abuse histories who are preparing for parole or mandatory release. In 2000, the Mental Health Transition Unit, which was designed to augment the CMHC-J, was established at Patuxent Institution. This unit provides evaluation and support to inmates referred from DOC institutions who have mental health histories and who are scheduled for release to the community. A Step-Down Mental Health Unit, which is currently consolidated under the CMHC-J umbrella, was also developed in 2000 to serve inmates who have histories of

title: Jim Ward (Kansas politician)
text: number of people who get health care." In 2015, Ward called for an audit of the Kansas Department for Children and Families after several children died in state custody. He spoke to the Kansas Legislative Post Audit Committee on July 29, 2015: “In the last couple of years, I’ve been getting more and more and more concerns presented to me about supervision not being done, placements being changed fairly radically quickly, and care plans not being followed through with." Later in 2015, Ward requested another audit of DCF on the grounds that the agency was discriminating against same-sex couples who

title: Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital
text: Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospital Two Rivers Behavioral Health System is a psychiatric hospital located in Kansas City, Missouri. Opened in October 1986, the facility is operated as a private, for-profit, behavioral health hospital and is owned by Universal Health Services. Two Rivers Behavioral Health System has a broad range of in-patient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient services comprising the following units or programs: The National Center for Trauma-Based Disorders has both trauma stabilization and trauma treatment programs as well as a program for those with trauma and co-occurring eating disorders and addictions. Two Rivers Psychiatric Hospitals is one of two

title: Mendota Mental Health Institute
text: the "Madison model". It is the only psychiatric facility in Wisconsin to have received the award. By 1975, patient populations had dropped to 1/3 capacity at Mendota MHI and a sister facility, Winnebago Mental Health Institute, near Oshkosh and politicians made efforts to close one of the Institutes. Governor Patrick Lucey (D) urged the Legislature to close Winnebago and Democrats in the State Assembly Finance committee supported that effort. However, Republicans in the State Senate voted to close the Mendota facility instead. Governor Lucey threatened to veto a budget that included funding for both facilities, but the Legislature ended up

title: Mendota Mental Health Institute
text: wing of Old Main starting in September 1964. The central wing of Old Main dated to 1860 and the west wing dated back to 1862. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) was developed at Mendota. A community-based treatment, rehabilitation, and supportive services program aimed at helping those with severe and persistent mental illness avoid psychiatric hospitalization and live independently in the community, the program was a forerunner of many other similar programs throughout the world. In 1974, MMHI received the American Psychiatric Association's Gold Achievement Award for the program, also known as

title: Mendota Mental Health Institute
text: its patients. As a result, the Institute lost its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) federal certification for its Adult Assessment Treatment Unit (AATU), amounting to a loss of about $1 million in federal reimbursement for Medicare patients. According to Dane County executive, Kathleen Falk, county tax payers would now have to pay for hospital costs for patients referred to the hospital by the county court system instead of being paid for by Medicare. Officials at the Institute said that they could not comply with Federal rules that conflicted with state laws, for example the state allows patients to

title: Mendota Mental Health Institute
text: funding both anyway. In November 1975, Governor Lucey dropped his efforts to close Winnebago MHI. As of 2014, both facilities were still open. In 1977, the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Waupun, Wisconsin was converted from a prison hospital to Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum security adult male correctional facility. Some of the patients, like Ed Gein, were transferred to Mendota. In 2007, state officials admitted that there was an inappropriate, intimate relationship between a female caregiver and male patient at MMHI. The caregiver resigned in March 2006 after other patients witnessed the two kissing. A federal

title: Norristown State Hospital
text: hospital buildings for a variety of psychiatric, residential and social services. These agencies currently make up the majority of services that are offered on the grounds of the hospital. In February 2018, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania announced that they would be closing the civil unit at Norristown State permanently. There have been some voices of dissent among the public, as the majority of these patients would be redirected to community residential settings and outpatient psychiatry. This closure will re-route remaining civil psychiatric beds north to Danville State Hospital in Montour County, Pennsylvania. The forensic facilities at Norristown, however, will remain

title: Bridgewater State Hospital
text: inmates were transferred to Bridgewater from other jails and prison facilities and kept at Bridgewater for much longer than their sentences entailed. In September 2016, Governor Charlie Baker announced the hospital will be moving away from a historical prison model and toward a more clinical approach to the treatment of the mentally ill. According to the plan, every inmate will receive an individualized plan of treatment within ten days of admission to the facility. Inmates who are on psychiatric medications would be seen by a psychiatrist on a timely basis and the facility would move to electronic health records. "Titicut

title: Riverview Hospital (Coquitlam)
text: to psychiatric care was expected to decrease which is apparent in the report. Be that as it may, recommendations still distinctly states that “The current level of financial resources at Riverview Hospital should be available for treatment, rehabilitation, and support of the mentally ill people transferred to community-based facilities and programs” (22). Despite financial cuts, many of the recommendations still enforce sufficient beds for the acutely mentally ill, proper assessment and supervision and sufficient education for the new careers to be offered as psychiatric care changes. Even more importantly recommendations 63 and 64 state that all programs must be in

title: Winfield, Kansas
text: of the century the (now designated "Winfield State Hospital and Training Center") housed developmentally disabled people. Changing social and political attitudes, and SCOTUS decisions, and conservative political economics (developmentally disabled persons supported in the community cost the state $25,000 annually, versus $130,000 for confinement in the Winfield facility), led to the gradual closing of most of the facility—over heated protests from residents' families and local community leaders. In 1998, the Kansas Legislature officially voted to close it. At that time, it was the oldest and largest of the three Kansas state hospitals for developmentally disabled persons. When the closure of

title: Mendota Mental Health Institute
text: Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane was converted into a prison. He died in Stovall Hall in 1984. Mendota Mental Health Institute Mendota Mental Health Institute (MMHI) is a public psychiatric hospital in Madison, Wisconsin operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission. Portions of the facility are included in the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital Historic District, District #88002183. The Mendota State Hospital Mound Group (NRHP #74000076) and Farwell's Point Mound Group (NRHP #74000069) are also located at the facility. The facility opened July 14, 1860, as the Wisconsin Hospital for the

title: Mendota Mental Health Institute
text: the estate of the patient, but admitted no liability for the incident. In 2012, the rated capacity of MMHI was 234 and the average daily population was 222. The capacity is "staffed capacity" and is based on funding and staffing rather than available number of beds. In 2014, the state announced that all civil patients in state facilities would be treated at Winnebago MHI near Oshkosh and Mendota MHI would only treat criminal patients. Prior to this change, adult male civil patients were admitted to Mendota while female and juvenile patients were treated at Winnebago. The change freed up space

title: Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
text: renamed Western State Psychiatric Hospital, and now called the Northwest Center for Behavioral Health. A year later, a second state-operated facility was opened in Vinita, Oklahoma, called the Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, later renamed to the Oklahoma Forensic Center. On October 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which sparked a major transformation of the public mental health system by shifting resources away from large institutions towards community-based mental health treatment programs. Soon after the passage of this law, the Department created the Central Oklahoma Community Mental Health Center