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Santa Clara County unveils new residential mental health facility amid psychiatric bed shortage
SAN JOSE — The rooms inside this building—modestly furnished with neatly made twin beds, tables, chairs and nightstands decorated with vases of faux orange-and-violet daises—may look unremarkable. But to Santa…
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Mission Oaks psychiatric care center closes amid crisis
Alexis Crase calls Mission Oaks her “safe place.” The 32-year-old San Jose resident has been admitted to the inpatient psychiatric facility in Los Gatos more than 20 times over the…
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More patients in crisis falling through cracks of state psychiatric commitment system
In the language of state agencies, it’s “loss of custody.” In the vernacular of medical staff, it’s being “street-ed.” Both refer to when an emergency medical department is unable to…
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Changing attitudes on psychiatric care
Two troubling incidents in Paterson — an imam stabbed during a prayer service and the smearing of feces on the letters “Allah” in a school sign — have sparked conversations…
