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A year-and-a-half federal investigation determined Missouri is violating federal disability law by unnecessarily institutionalizing thousands of adults with mental illness in nursing homes.
As of March 2023 , there were 3,289 adults who had spent at least 100 days in Missouri ’s nursing homes, according to the report.
Those sent to nursing homes are often resistant to treatment and cycled in and out of psychiatric hospitals.
There are currently 312 people in Missouri jails waiting to be moved to psychiatric hospitals.
Missourians who are arrested, deemed unfit to stand trial and ordered into mental health treatment are now detained in jail for an average of eleven months before being transferred to a mental health facility.
The state’s struggle to transfer people from jails into mental hospitals stems, in part, from a lack of hospital beds and an increase in referrals.
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