Budson R D
Community Residential and Treatment Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02178.
Psychiatr Q. 1994 Fall;65(3):209-20. doi: 10.1007/BF02356121.
The treatment of serious mental illness in private psychiatric hospitals is undergoing radical change. Instead of costly, long-term inpatient hospitalization, low-cost alternatives are emerging as a vital part of a new "system of care." These alternatives include a range of community residences and partial hospitalization. The creation of these facilities enables a psychiatric hospital to meet the new health care economic realities by containing the cost of treating the most seriously ill patients. Simultaneously, these services provide more adequate treatment for such patients and sustain a core value system of clinical rehabilitation.
私立精神病医院中严重精神疾病的治疗正在经历根本性变革。不再是成本高昂、长期的住院治疗，低成本的替代方案正成为新“护理体系”的重要组成部分。这些替代方案包括一系列社区住所和部分住院治疗。这些设施的创建使精神病医院能够通过控制治疗最严重疾病患者的成本来适应新的医疗保健经济现实。同时，这些服务为这类患者提供了更充分的治疗，并维持了临床康复的核心价值体系。
