Bill to study Texas psychiatric bed capacity falls short

New psych residential treatment bill upholds Basaglia - SIP

A government bill envisaging more residential treatment for psychiatric patients respects the principles of the 1978 Basaglia Law that closed Italy's mental asylums and paved the way for care in the community which many experts say has placed an unacceptab... (ANSA)

Bill to study Texas psychiatric bed capacity falls short

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Legislation that would have prompted a widespread study of Texas’ current and future psychiatric facility capacity fell short of passage this year. State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, filed the bill for the second time. The state needs to invest in the study to give decision-makers “the ability to look at all of our options out into the future for meeting this demand,” she told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee in e…