4440 Department of State Hospitals
Major Program Changes
  • 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.

  • Activation of State Hospital Beds-The Budget provides an increase of $18.1 million General Fund and 175.5 positions to activate an additional 60 beds at Napa State Hospital and 36 beds at Metropolitan State Hospital. The activation of these beds improves DSH's ability to address the immediate needs of pending placements.