Involving the Private Sector in Community Psychiatry
CAPTANE P. THOMSON M.D., M.S. HYG.1
1 Program chief, Yolo County Mental Health Services, Woodland, Calif., and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif.
The author offers one answer to the question of how psychiatry can expand its capacity for direct service if a national health insurance program removes the financial barrier to care. He describes the cooperative development of a central inpatient, day patient, and emergency service that eliminates the distinction between public and private care and makes maximum use of scarce professional manpower.
