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Virginia Closes Five Mental Health Institutions to New Patients Amid Crisis in Staffing

Updated on July 12, 2021 at 12:07 am NBC Universal, Inc. A crisis in mental health care is forcing Virginia to stop accepting new patients at five of its eight state institutions because staffing shortages and safety issues are affecting their ability to meet the growing need for care. The head of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) said in a statement that there are more than 1,500 patient-support staff vacancies across the state.  Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. The result is a dangerous environment where staff and patients are at increasing risk for physical harm, and where effective treatment to help patients recover is much harder to deliver, DBHDS said in a letter to its partners and providers Friday. 

Virginia Closes Five Mental Health Institutions to New Admissions Amid Crisis in Staffing

Updated on July 12, 2021 at 12:07 am NBC Universal, Inc. A crisis in mental health care is forcing Virginia to stop accepting new patients at five of its eight state institutions because staffing shortages and safety issues are affecting their ability to meet the growing need for care. The head of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) said in a statement that there are more than 1,500 patient-support staff vacancies across the state.  Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. The result is a dangerous environment where staff and patients are at increasing risk for physical harm, and where effective treatment to help patients recover is much harder to deliver, DBHDS said in a letter to its partners and providers Friday. 

5 Virginia mental health facilities shrink capacity, halt new admissions

Virginia orders five state mental hospitals to stop taking new admits amid staffing crisis

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.

Report: Va. mental hospitals reported uptick in deaths during pandemic

A Disability Law Center of Virginia report shows the number of reported deaths rose slightly at state-run mental hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.