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Calif. faces acute shortage of hospital beds for psychiatric emergencies
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Dec 17, 2013
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Calif. faces acute shortage of hospital beds for psychiatric emergencies
There's an acute shortage of hospital beds for psychiatric emergencies. Long gone are the days of housing the seriously mentally ill in state hospitals. Reform came, but not the money.

There's an acute shortage of hospital beds for psychiatric emergencies. Long gone are the days of housing the seriously mentally ill in state hospitals. Reform came, but not the money.

There's an acute shortage of hospital beds for psychiatric emergencies. Long gone are the days of housing the seriously mentally ill in state hospitals. Reform came, but not the money. 

The California Report's Elaine Korry has the first of three stories.