The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (11/24, Venteicher) reports that HR 2646, “a mental health reform proposal from US Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA], would start to counter a 50-year trend of moving treatment to patients’ homes and communities, rather than hospitals.” The American Psychiatric Association supports the measure, “saying hospitalization and outpatient treatment can benefit people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.” APA president Renee Binder, MD, “said hospitals are better equipped than community-based programs to stabilize someone having a mental health crisis.”
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Read more: http://triblive.com/news/healthnews/9481966-74/mental-bill-health#ixzz3uUhIuhWp
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