Hospitals often cite a shortage of psychiatric beds as the reason for discharging patients, but the mayor said that the city would make sure there were enough beds for people who were removed. He noted that Gov. Kathy Hochul had agreed to add 50 new psychiatric beds. “We are going to find a bed for everyone,” Mr. Adams said.
It is unclear how many people might be affected by the new policy. The number of homeless people with severe mental illness who are not living in shelters fluctuates seasonally but is, at the very least, in the hundreds. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group, studies have shown that a large majority of unsheltered New Yorkers have mental illness or other severe health problems. An annual estimate that is often criticized as an undercount counted about 3,400 people living in streets and subways in January.
When I was in a psychiatric hospital, they gave us a big foam block with waterproof coating, so we couldn't bean ourselves on the corner or damage them with urine or faeces. No bedframe or anything. Also no locks on any doors including bathroom doors. Also my room mate was really weird.
You got a bathroom door? I got a bathroom flap of leather that didn’t stay closed right
Also how fucking insane is the concept of having shared bedrooms in a psych hospital. Whoever the first person to say “Yes, put two beds in this room, patients can share!” should’ve been promptly shot in the head.
I don’t really think anyone should be forced to share a bedroom with anyone aside from their partner for an extended time, but a mental hospital especially.
Proper doors in mine. The amount of access patients have to each other is pretty wild. The nurses pretty much only came out at meal times or to cool off altercations, and I saw a psychiatrist once a week (no therapist). The amount of attention each patient needed was way more than that. We just kinda milled about. Someone lent me a 40k book to read, which I didn't enjoy.
Hospitals often cite a shortage of psychiatric beds as the reason for discharging patients, but the mayor said that the city would make sure there were enough beds for people who were removed. He noted that Gov. Kathy Hochul had agreed to add 50 new psychiatric beds. “We are going to find a bed for everyone,” Mr. Adams said.
:yes-honey-left: "There are not enough beds."
:porky-happy: "We are going to find a bed for everyone."
This is why the ruling class is the ruling class! :so-true:
I'm sure they're really big, really comfy beds, though.
Hospitals are so hopelessly fucked these days that I'm convinced they mean adding 50 literal beds and no staff or resources for the 50 patients
i'm convinced they are just lying
The Neoliberal Princess and the Pea?
I'm sure everything will be fine and they will be treated with the utmost care! :blob-no-thoughts:
Of course! Adams is a Democrat!
Haha, what a relief!
When I was in a psychiatric hospital, they gave us a big foam block with waterproof coating, so we couldn't bean ourselves on the corner or damage them with urine or faeces. No bedframe or anything. Also no locks on any doors including bathroom doors. Also my room mate was really weird.
You got a bathroom door? I got a bathroom flap of leather that didn’t stay closed right
Also how fucking insane is the concept of having shared bedrooms in a psych hospital. Whoever the first person to say “Yes, put two beds in this room, patients can share!” should’ve been promptly shot in the head.
I don’t really think anyone should be forced to share a bedroom with anyone aside from their partner for an extended time, but a mental hospital especially.
Proper doors in mine. The amount of access patients have to each other is pretty wild. The nurses pretty much only came out at meal times or to cool off altercations, and I saw a psychiatrist once a week (no therapist). The amount of attention each patient needed was way more than that. We just kinda milled about. Someone lent me a 40k book to read, which I didn't enjoy.
Oh no I tripped over a lathe.
:yes-honey-left: "There are not enough beds."
:porky-happy: "We are going to find a bed for everyone."
This is why the ruling class is the ruling class! :so-true: