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Living in Hope

其他書名	A Response to 2009-2010 Bed Closure Process at the Alberta Hospital
出版	Parkland Institute, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=41_ljwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The issue of mental health bed distribution, and, by extension, the extent and quality of all mental health services in Alberta, is directly related to our policy makers' acceptance and empathy toward the plight of the mentally ill and to 12 Living in Hope viscerally grasping the reality of how mental illness affects individuals and our society. [...] Backtracking in the form of reassessments and purported alterations to the plan ensued, a backtracking all the more dizzying given that in less than a year the government had gone from full-on plans for the redevelopment of AHE, to closing a majority of its beds, to leaving most of them open and shift- ing just one patient population. [...] The humanistic and broadly sensible approach that is everywhere apparent in the McDermott Report only increases the mystery around why the govern- ment attempted to suppress it, and why it became the subject of controversy and Freedom of Information requests.12 True, some of the report's conclusions were challenging to the government; it pointed out that Alberta had a quarter of the mental health [...] The bottom-line for beds is that the current avail- ability, access and use of mental health beds is dependent on the corresponding availability, access and use of the full array of community care, support and treatment services required by individuals coming to the mental health system. [...] In writing about the need to look at the system comprehensively and to take the time to fully understand the interdependence of its very complicated parts, McDermott wrote, Lack of attention to the coherence of the model will result in the issues that the province continues to struggle with today.