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Psychiatric Recovery Case Study
For many of the patients at the state run psychiatric recovery centers, it’s a long road to get to the point where they can be released into the care of a transitional facility. Through much hard work and guidance, they come to point where they can be released and for many, a short while after, they are readmitted to the state run facility as continuity and quality of care is almost nonexistent causing these patients to rapidly deteriorate.

The reason why I want to research this question is there are concerns as to how continuity of care between state facilities and the proposed corporate transitional facility will be any different from the current system. Also, there are concerns of patient abuse as one of the potential bidders for the

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