Health and Human Services
4440 Department of State Hospitals

The Department of State Hospitals (DSH) manages the nation's largest inpatient forensic mental health hospital system. Its mission is to provide evaluation and treatment in a safe and responsible manner, seeking innovation and excellence in state hospital operations, across a continuum of care and settings. DSH is responsible for the daily care and provision of mental health treatment of its patients. In 2014-15, DSH served almost 13,000 patients and the average daily inpatient census was approximately 6,800 in a 24 hours a day/seven days a week hospital setting. More.....

MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • Jail-Based Competency Treatment Beds-The Budget includes $4.2 million General Fund to expand the jail-based competency treatment program by 35 beds and provide additional oversight of the restoration of competency program. With this increase, DSH will support a total of 183 restoration of competency beds to serve incompetent to stand trial patients outside of the state hospitals, at a total cost of approximately $22.6 million General Fund in 2016-17. Despite recent measures to increase capacity both in the state hospitals and at jail-based programs, referrals continue to outpace admissions and discharges and the pending placement list was over 430 individuals as of June 2016.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Enacted
2016-17*
Positions
Dollars
4380 In-Patient Services
10,372.8
$1,764,574
4385 Evaluation and Forensic Services
72.0
22,264
4390 Legal Services
37.0
7,015
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
10,481.8
$1,793,853
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
51,669
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
10,481.8
$1,845,522

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.

Refer to the Infrastructure Overview for infrastructure expenditure detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

 Entire Department of State Hospitals Budget (pdf * - 26K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 3K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.