This PDF is a supplement to our 2024 report, “Prevention Over Punishment: Finding the Right Balance of Civil and Forensic State Psychiatric Hospital Beds”, offering more detailed information about the state-hospital system across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. To find information about your state, please search for the name of your state within the PDF document. For a more comprehensive understanding of the role that state hospitals play in the national continuum of care, as well as details on methodology and data sources, we recommend reading the complete report.
Psychiatric Hospital Beds
Prevention Over Punishment: Finding the Right Balance of Civil and Forensic State Psychiatric Hospital Beds
The number of state psychiatric hospital beds for adults with severe mental illness has continued to decline to a historic low of 36,150, or 10.8 per 100,000 population in 2023, […]
Psychiatric Bed Supply Need Per Capita
The United States is in the midst of a psychiatric bed shortage that worsens every year. By early 2016, the practice of closing state mental hospitals, often called “deinstitutionalization,” had […]