‘There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle’: 5 months into California’s psychiatric staffing mandate

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 […] The post ‘There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle’: 5 months into California’s psychiatric staffing mandat...