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  1. Patients’ Rights Advocate Training 2013LPS (5150)Bed ShortageComprehensively Understanding the Problem and Discussion of Potential SolutionsCynthia White, LMFT, Chief PRABrandon “Brandy” Mansouri, LMFT, PRASan Bernardino County ■ (800) 440-2391 ■ (909) 421-4657Lisa Long, PRASacramento & Yolo County ■ (877) 965-6772 ■ (916) 333-3800

  2. Training Agenda • Sample Case • Pertinent Background • Lanterman Petris Short Act • Types of Facilities • Relevant Laws & Regulations • Welfare & Institutions Code (WIC) • Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) • Health & Safety Code (H & S) • Constitutional Rights • The LPS Bed Shortage • Availability of Facilities • Issues Impacting the System • Loss of Psychiatric Beds • Patient-to-Bed Gap • Revisiting the Case Sample • Activity & Discussion • Issues Impacting the System • Innovative Solutions in Sacramento County • Resources

  3. Consider the Following Case: • Law Enforcement 5150’s Client • Law Enforcement takes Client to the closest Emergency Room (ER), which is not an LPS Designated Facility • Client “eventually” ends up at a LPS Facility • PRA meets Client in preparing for Certification Review Hearing • Client indicates she was in the ER, tied to a gurney for 8 days before getting transferred to LPS Facility

  4. Pertinent Background

  5. Lanterman Petris Short Act • History: • In 1967, CA legislature instituted a bill called Lanterman Petris Short Act to change how persons with mental disabilities are treated. • Mandated least restrictive treatment setting & given due process in court if involuntarily detained. • Relevant Intent: • Indicated in Welfare & Institutions Code, Division 5, Part 1, Chapt. 1 • End inappropriate, indefinite, involuntary commitment of mentally disabled person & protect them from criminal acts • Provide prompt evaluation & treatment of persons with serious mental disorders • Safeguard individual rights through judicial review • Encourage full use of all existing agencies, professional personnel & public funds to accomplished these objectives

  6. Types of Facilities • General Acute Care Hospitals: • Health & Safety Code, Division 2, Chapter 2, Article 1, §1250 (a) • Psychiatric Health Facility: • Health & Safety Code, Division 2, Chapter 2, Article 1, §1250.2 • Acute Psychiatric Hospitals: • Health & Safety Code, Division 2, Chapter 2, Article 1, §1250 (b) • California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 5, Chapter 2 • Sub-Types: • County • Private • Free-Standing

  7. Relevant Laws & Regulations

  8. Welfare & Institutions Code (WIC) • Division 5, Chapt. 2, Article 1: Detention of Mentally Disordered persons for Evaluation and Treatment • WIC §5150: “…take…the person into custody & place him or her in a facility designated by the County & approved by the State DMH as a facility for 72-hour treatment & evaluation.” • WIC §5151: “If the facility for 72-hour treatment & evaluation admits the person, it may detain him or her for a period not to exceed 72 hours.” • WIC §5152: (a) “Each person admitted to a facility for 72-hour treatment & evaluation…shall receive an evaluation as soon as possible after he or she is admitted & receive whatever treatment & care his or her condition requires for the full period he or she is held.”

  9. Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) • 42 USC 1395dd or Section 1867 of Social Security Act • When a person comes to a hospital seeking medical care regardless of their ability to pay, the hospital must preform an Medical Screening Exam to determine if there is an emergency medical condition and if so, must stabilize it prior to discharging or transferring the patient. • 5150 patients are, by definition suffering from a Psychiatric Emergency Medical Condition but if the facility is not LPS designated, it cannot admit the patient involuntarily & must transfer the involuntary patient to one that is LPS designate. • Even if no apparent medical emergency, 5150 patients often brought to an acute care hospital ED because of location or to get medical clearance

  10. Health & Safety Code (H & S) 1799.111 • Also referred to as “Hospital ER 24 Hour Rule” • In Jan 2008, California extended the 8 hour rule that allows General Acute Care Hospitals to detain for up to 24 hours • Detainment extension was to arranged for mental health treatment services for any person who is: • Gravely disabled • Danger to self • Danger to others • As a result of a mental disorder • And cannot be safely released.

  11. Constitutional Rights • The Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment • The overwhelming majority of court decisions that define American civil liberties are based on the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments added to the Constitution in 1791. Civil liberties protected in the Bill of Rights may be divided into two broad areas: freedoms and rights guaranteed in the First Amendment (religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition) and liberties and rights associated with crime and due process. Civil rights are also protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects violation of rights and liberties by the state governments. • Title 42, U.S.C., Section 1997 • The Department of Justice has the ability to initiate civil actions against mental hospitals, retardation facilities, jails, prisons, nursing homes, and juvenile detention facilities when there are allegations of systemic derivations of the constitutional rights of institutionalized persons

  12. The LPS Bed Shortage

  13. The Problem • Availability of Facilities • 25 Counties with no Inpatient Psychiatric Beds • Only 13 Counties have child and/or adolescent Beds • Loss of Psychiatric Beds • Either eliminated psychiatric inpatient care or closed hospital completely • 30% Loss of Beds since 1995 • Patient-to-Bed Gap Increasing • Absolute minimum is 50 public psychiatric beds per 100,000 population • Assumes availability of appropriate outpatient services in community • 1995, California short by 1,400 (only 29.5 beds per 100,000) • 2010, California short by 3,600 (only 17.67 beds per 100,000) • Increasing population & need for services • Decreasing beds, cuts in funding & diminishing availability of appropriate outpatient services in the community

  14. Adult Psychiatric Beds 25 Counties have no inpatient psychiatric services (white): • Del Norte • Siskiyou • Modoc • Trinity • Shasta • Lassen • Tehama • Plumas • Mendocino • Glenn • Lake • Colusa • Sierra • Yuba • Nevada • Amador • Alpine • Calaveras • Mono • Mariposa • Madera • San Benito • Inyo • Kings • Imperial

  15. Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Beds Only 13 Counties have have child &/or adolescent inpatient psychiatric services (orange): • San Francisco • San Mateo • Solano • Contra Costa • Alameda • Sacramento • San Joaquin • Ventura • Los Angeles • San Bernardino • Orange • Riverside • San Diego

  16. Revisiting the Case Sample:Activity

  17. Group Discussion • For Discussion: • What are the relevant issues? • What are the potential consequences? • How could the issues be addressed & resolve? • Case Facts: • Law Enforcement 5150’s Client • Law Enforcement takes Client to the closest Emergency Room (ER), which is not an LPS Designated Facility • Client “eventually” ends up at a LPS Facility • PRA meets Client in preparing for Certification Review Hearing • Client indicates she was in the ER, tied to a gurney for 8 days before getting transferred to LPS Facility

  18. Issues Impacting the System • Transportation • Funding • Voluntary status & transport • Recidivism • Impact on Client • No prompt evaluation & treatment • Further traumatized or decompensating while sitting in ER • Decreased confidence in mental health system; less likely to access • Impact on Collaterals • Good intentions gone bad • Guilt, frustration, relational issues • Decreased confidence in mental health system; less likely to access • Impact on Providers • Helpless; no trained or prepared for behavioral health • Frustrated • Confusion; unclear of mental health system

  19. Innovative Solutions In Sacramento County

  20. Sacramento County • The Problem • Budget Cuts • Mental Health Patients’ Civil Rights • Patients in non-designated hospital over 24 hours • Sequential 5150s • Other Issues • The Solution Process • Consultation • Correspondence with Mental Health Director • Response from Mental Health Director • Procedural changes • Process of change in non-designated facilities • Education

  21. Resources • California Hospital Association Report, (2/27/12): http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/states/california/calpsychbedshortage.pdf • No Room at the Inn: Trends and Consequences of Closing Public Psychiatric Hospitals 2005 – 2012, (July 19, 2012): http://tacreports.org/storage/documents/no_room_at_the_inn-2012.pdf • Impact of the Mental Healthcare Delivery System on California Emergency Departments (February 2012), Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298229/pdf/wjem-13-01-51.pdf • California Department of Mental Health Laws & Regulations

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