The Treatment Advocacy Center (www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org) is a national nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses.
TAC promotes laws, policies, and practices for the delivery of psychiatric care and supports the development of innovative treatments for and research into the causes of severe and persistent psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Too much expected of hospitals
"If you overwhelm a system beyond its point of capacity, it can't do everything it needs to do."
- Dr. Jeffrey Geller, a psychiatrist from the University of Massachusetts medical school who is monitoring the hospitals for the federal government.