title: The future of the mental hospital: developing a unified system of care.
abstract: The authors emphasize that the future of state mental hospitals should be considered only in the context of a unified system of care and treatment of the mentally ill. They discuss changing perceptions of mental hospitals as resources for mental health care, describe trends that must be considered in developing a unified system of services, and make recommendations about treatment plans, staffing, funding, organization and governance, and legal codes and standards of the components of a unified system.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008875:Middle Aged; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D014481:United States