LANSING, Mich. (WPBN\/WGTU)\u2014 Several northern Michigan advocates voiced concerns during a state House subcommittee meeting about the urgent need for more in-patient care for those affected by severe mental illness in the area.<\/p>\n
A study by the Treatment Advocacy Center in 2024 indicated that any community requires 30 psychiatric beds per 100,000 people to maintain community health. <\/p>\n
However, the same study revealed that Michigan only has 19.4 beds per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, Sara Bush from the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office testified about the challenges posed by the shortage of beds. <\/p>\n
“The bed placement is really where we’re struggling. Currently right now, I have two people who are in Munson with two officers who are sitting with them for the last week because we can’t find a bed placement,” said Bush.<\/p>\n
Bush added that the sheriff’s office has had to provide an officer to sit with individuals until a bed becomes available, resulting in more than 197 hours of overtime pay since January.<\/p>\n
In response to the crisis, Munson’s Mental Health Crisis and Access Center in Grand Traverse County will begin offering 24-hour care starting July 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANSING, Mich. (WPBN\/WGTU)\u2014 Several northern Michigan advocates voiced concerns during a state House subcommittee meeting about the urgent…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[29436,29435,210,29434,517,29437,29433,29432,15867,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-35871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-bed-placement","9":"tag-community-health","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-in-patient-care","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-munsons-mental-health-crisis","14":"tag-northern-michigan","15":"tag-psychiatric-beds","16":"tag-severe-mental-illness","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114790513121697789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}