psych hospital

plural psych hospitals

1. informalClipped compound of psychiatric hospital.

   It may well be that the probes into National Medical’s psych hospitals by federal officials in Texas, Florida and New Jersey won’t turn up the overbilling or unnecessary stays that critics of psychiatric programs allege are commonplace.

   1991 October 9, Tom Petruno, “Health-Care Is No Longer Sure-Fire Growth Industry”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2025

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   From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management. […] Over the past two years, in the United States, she has given dozens of talks on suicide and the Hearing Voices movement to audiences of several hundred at conferences, to social-work graduate students, to staff at psych hospitals on grand rounds.

   2022 May 17, Daniel Bergner, “Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2022

   The man told me his story: divorce, layoff, layoff, a series of visits to psych hospitals, making money by collecting bottles and cans, sleeping in an abandoned pickup truck during the recent frigid spell, which was cold, but he had a comforter.

   2023 January 18, Lisa Miller, “‘There’s No Room in the System’ A plan to commit the homeless has little meaning in the ER.”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2023