Overcrowding in mental hospitals.

Overcrowding, understaffing and infection in hospitals.

Emergency department overcrowding in Massachusetts: making room in our hospitals.

In the past year, stories of Emergency Department (ED) crowding and ambulance diversion have entered Massachusetts headlines with increasing frequency. Hospitals throughout the state now report record numbers of hours on " diversion status, " unable to accept new ambulance arrivals because they are overwhelmed. When emergency responsiveness is threatened, public confidence in the entire health ...

Mental Hospital Overcrowding: Formula for Change

A mental hospital responsible for psychiatric illness occurring in a population of 500,000 may have 2,000 inpatients (four beds for 1,000 of the population at risk). There will be a further 8,000 people needing regular psychiatric treatment. It is neither necessary nor desirable that everyone of the 10,000 patients should be in hospital. Not necessary because many people with psychiatric illnes...

Mental Hospitals in India

This review traces the history of the mental hospital movement, initially on the world stage, and later in India, in relation to advances in psychiatric care. Mental hospitals have played a significant role in the evolution of psychiatry to its present statusThe earliest hospital in India were established during the British colonial rule. They served as a means to isolate mentally ill persons f...

Libraries in Mental Hospitals

Libraries in hospitals are now an accepted principle in this country and some others, but before they can reach perfection their establishment in mental hospitals calls for more study, for very ready co-operation by all concerned, and also for much imagination and sympathy. One day when going into a ward of particularly distressed and depressed women, I felt compelled to speak to one who looked...