Another Psych Hospital is shutting down

The Culpeper Regional Hospital in Virginia has announced that it will close Pinebrooke Psychiatric Center on October 31. As the hospital noted in a news release:

"The board [of trustees] has agreed that while acute psychiatric care is important, it is not financially viable in the current healthcare economic climate ..."

The review also found that psychiatrists have become harder to recruit.

Virginia Psychiatric Medicine, which is owned by Culpeper Regional Hospital and provides psychiatrists and other mental-health staff members for Pinebrooke, will also close Oct. 31.

[which I note that the facilities will be closing on Halloween.]

Ironic