Cedars-Sinai to Close Inpatient, Outpatient Psychiatry Programs

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center plans to shut down its inpatient and outpatient psychiatry programs over the next year, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

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Cedars-Sinai will still keep its psychiatric services in the emergency room, cancer center and some other areas, but patients will progressively move to other facilities.

California’s acute-care inpatient psychiatric beds have decreased steadily since 1996, according to the report. There were roughly 8,500 beds in the state in 1996, and now there are about 6,500.

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