Nearly five months after California’s psychiatric nurse staffing ratios took effect, the state’s Medicaid agency is weighing a plan to send money that providers have sought to help absorb the mandate’s costs to programs further downstream. One psychiatric hospital CEO told Becker’s the state needs to start with the basics: a stable foundation of inpatient care for other services to build on. John Meier, CEO of Aurora Charter Oak Behavioral Health Hospital in Covina, Calif., said that providers have pushed for Behavioral Health Facility Throughput dollars tied to Proposition 35,… Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review. Read More
‘There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle’: 5 months into California’s psychiatric staffing mandate
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