Human services must do moreIt=92s good to see the Legislature putting pressure on the Department of
Human Services to expedite the release of psychiatric patients and
developmentally disabled residents who don=92t require
institutionalization from state psychiatric hospitals. Now let=92s see
some action.
At an Assembly budget committee hearing Tuesday, lawmakers criticized
the department=92s failure to adequately address the long waiting list
for group homes or supervised apartments, the poor care being provided
at state psychiatric hospitals =97 problems outlined in the ongoing
Press series =93Trouble at Ancora=94 =97 and the excessive overtime
allocation requested by Human Services.
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