The outcome that resulted from the fundamental flaw with the deinstitutionalization of mental health patients was that: (Select all that apply.)
a. patients had to be readmitted to state hospitals because of the lack of adequate community services.
b. there was insufficient financial support to care for the psychiatric patients at the homeless shelters currently in place.
c. funds for services were misused since policymakers did not require adequate documentation of patient service needs.
d. there were insufficient numbers of community health professionals available to care for the psychiatric patients who qualified for deinstitutionalization care.
e. patients refused to seek out or accept mental health care from community-basedfacilities since they were unfamiliar with them and therefore generally distrustful of them.
A, B, D
Soon after deinstitutionalization began, it became clear that policymakers had seriously miscalculated both the service needs of this population and the ability of communities to accommodate the large numbers of people with mental illness who had been discharged from the state. Often these former patients had to be readmitted to state hospitals.
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