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Editorial: Impacts of mental health crisis could expand

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part editorial. The first part appeared Monday. The sudden curtailing of admissions to state mental hospitals sent a “shock wave” through the entire system, said state Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Augusta. That wave is expected to spread to the law enforcement system and exacerbate an already difficult relationship between policing and mental health. Unfortunately, many patients enter the mental health system through the doors of local police and sheriff’s departments — often literally. When people experience a crisis so severe that it endangers themselves or others, law enforcement often is called. And if hospital beds can’t be found for these crisis patients, what is the alternative?

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. 

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