Continuity and intensity of case management activity in three CMHCs.
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R Shadoan
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Effects of fiscal retrenchment on public mental health services for the chronic mentally ill.
In reviewing the public mental health services of 11 California counties during a period of fiscal retrenchment, we found several common trends: a greater focus on the severely mentally disabled; an increase in utilization of hospital-based care, residential treatment, day treatment, and case management services; and a decrease in the capacity of traditional outpatient services. Although the severely mentally disabled are receiving a higher priority for service, the findings imply that these service systems continue to inadequately address the need for long-term maintenance and supportive services to this population.
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Measuring case management activity.
A method is presented for measuring the activities of case management in the care of the severely mentally disabled in catchmented public community mental health systems. Two variants of the method were compared, interviewing case managers and record abstracting. The methods were tested in two community mental health center (CMHC) sites, and appear to yield comparable results. The record abstract method seems workable for retrospective examination of case management in a CMHC system, and for the comparison of case management in different systems.
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