As the new unit at Kerrville State Hospital sits empty, the waitlist for state...
A Hearst Newspapers article published this morning reveals that a pristine, new state psychiatric unit still has no patients despite construction wrapping up nearly five months ago – and that the $30-million-plus facility sits empty despite a dire need for inpatient care.The state-of-the-art unit in Kerrville remains without patients because Texas has been unable to find people to work there.
The state has acknowledged it had fallen behind pay rates, and bumped compensation for psychiatric hospital positions last spring and . Criminally charged patients requiring high security wait an average of a year and a half to get in.At the end of last year, 382 inmates at the Dallas County jail — 6 percent of its total population — idled waiting for a state bed to open so their mental competency could be restored, according to a letter the county sent last month to the Health and Human Services Commission threatening to sue over the cost.
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