Summary
After complaints that publicly funded hospitals are swamped with mentally ill patients, Los Angeles County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to spend $7.2 million on psychiatric emergency services.
The number of patients going to psychiatric emergency rooms has grown by 16 percent in the past year and now totals about 2,000 people a month.See the full content of this document
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County Oks Psychiatric Services Funds
As seven private hospitals have closed in the county in the past 18 months, law enforcement officers, psychiatric m...
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