Report urges government to rethink outdated regulations on hospitals

A number of regulations affecting inpatient psychiatric facilities achieve little to improve the quality of patient care and reflect conditions from a bygone era of inpatient treatment, states a report commissioned by the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH). Leaders in the psychiatric hospital community hope the report's conclusions will add momentum to regulatory reform at a time when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched an effort to reduce bureaucratic requirements.