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Virginia orders five state mental hospitals to stop taking new admits amid staffing crisis Jenna Portnoy © Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va., is one of five state mental health hospitals ordered to close to new admissions due to staffing shortages. The Virginia commissioner in charge of behavioral health on Friday closed five of the state’s eight adult mental health hospitals to new admissions, a step she said is necessary to protect workers amid unprecedented staffing shortages. The pandemic exacerbated overcrowding and inadequate staffing at the state’s psychiatric hospitals, which are required to admit some of the most challenging and often violent patients under involuntary detention orders.

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