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June 10, 2005
 Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Strategic Plan
The initial implementation activities will focus on creation and
implementation of a unified behavioral health system, expansion of
community services, construction of a new inpatient psychiatric
hospital, and implementation of a quality improvement plan. The
Unified Behavioral Health System will address issues in the current
system of care, including variance in policy, practice, quality,
outcomes, and efficiency as well as the ability to meet the actual
continuum of need with current levels of and flexibility in care.
Community services expansion for persons who have been or are now
awaiting community placement from hospitals. This activity is
already in progress. The planned activities as of June 2005 were as
follows:
- New community placements to serve
268 current Department of Mental Health (DMH) hospital residents
- Reduce DMH inpatient beds from 900
to 740
- Inpatient consolidation,
improvements and new hospital
- Design and develop new
state-of-the-art psychiatric hospital to meet consolidated bed
need in Central Massachusetts
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