High quality, ethically administered psychiatric asylums would provide the seriously mentally ill with a place to stabilize and recover. It is challenging to estimate the cost of long-term psychiatric care. To give these people the care they deserve, we need to bring back psychiatric asylums. Their quality and costs should be fully transparent and they should be integrated into the broader health care system, perhaps as a part of an accountable care organization. High quality, ethically administered psychiatric asylums would provide the seriously mentally ill with a place to stabilize and recover; they are a necessary part of a comprehensive mental health care system.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2016 04:15 UTC