About 37,000 Californians lived in state-run facilities in 1955, but that number dropped to 8,531 individuals in just five facilities as of 2020, according to the California Department of State Hospitals.
San Diego County reached an inflection point around mental health care in 2018, when Tri-City Medical Center shuttered its 18-bed psychiatric unit.
The decision surfaced a broad community conversation already under way among advocates, health providers and the county government, which is legally responsible for providing behavioral health care services to the region’s 1 million Medi-Cal recipients.
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