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The carrott and the stick: Inducing local programs to serve long-term patients

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Both financial and philsophical considerations have led to the dramatic shift in California of longterm patients from state hospitals to the community. Unfortunately local mental health programs frequently give low priority to the severely and chronically mentally ill. The state chose not only to engage in the wholesale discharge of patients from state hospitals but also to provide a number of financial inducements and penalties to motivate local programs to serve these patients. Although there have been many problems, local programs have developed a wide range of community treatment and rehabilitation programs for longterm patients.

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  1. University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1934 Hospital Place, 90033, Los Angeles, California

    H. Richard Lamb M.D. (Associate Professor of Psychiatry)

  2. California Department of Health, Local Programs Service Section, 744 P Street, Sacramento, California

    Marjorie B. Edelson A.C.S.W. (Community Mental Health Program Analyst)

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  1. H. Richard Lamb M.D.
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Lamb, H.R., Edelson, M.B. The carrott and the stick: Inducing local programs to serve long-term patients. Community Ment Health J 12, 137–144 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01411383

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