Serious Mental Illness: By the Numbers

This PDF is a supplement to our 2024 report, “Prevention Over Punishment: Finding the Right Balance of Civil and Forensic State Psychiatric Hospital Beds”, offering more detailed information about the state-hospital system across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To find information about your state, please search for the name of your state within the PDF document. For a more comprehensive understanding of the role that state hospitals play in the national continuum of care, as well as details on methodology and data sources, we recommend reading the complete report.

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Treatment Advocacy Center addresses the crisis of the 8.8 million people who suffer from severe mental illness and who are too often abandoned by our nation’s mental health system. Our […]

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