How to Use deinstitutionalization in a Sentence
deinstitutionalization
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The mass deinstitutionalization that came in its wake was the goal of the policy.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 6 Aug. 2019
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The first of these factors was the rise of the deinstitutionalization movement.
—Rachel Burr Gerrard, STAT, 13 Feb. 2022
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At the same time, the process of deinstitutionalization — the discharge of unwell patients from mental asylums — had begun in earnest.
—Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
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The number of state mental institutions in Illinois dropped many years ago as part of a nationwide deinstitutionalization dating back to the 1950s.
—Sarah Enelow-Snyder, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
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They were left abandoned after the advent of modern medicine and a shift toward deinstitutionalization.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2019
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This is the long tail of the deinstitutionalization policy adopted in the 1960s, when America closed down most of its mental hospitals, dumping the mentally ill onto the streets and calling it compassion.
—Mona Charen, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
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The erosion of cultural norms together with the deinstitutionalization of those with drug problems and mental illness lays bare what happens when a society takes down the guardrails of civil behavior.
—WSJ, 30 May 2022
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Decades after deinstitutionalization, some autistic children remain stuck in hospitals for lack of other options, and their parents are afraid or unable to bring them home.
—New York Times, 1 June 2022
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Many of the current problems in policing related to mental health can be traced back to America’s deinstitutionalization.
—Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
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That sentiment echoes the latest foray in a much larger, longer-running push for deinstitutionalization.
—Michael Schulson, Quartz, 25 June 2020
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But the move toward deinstitutionalization, critics say, has been too modest.
—Michael Schulson/undark, Popular Science, 22 June 2020
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But the move toward deinstitutionalization, critics says, has been too modest.
—Michael Schulson, Quartz, 25 June 2020
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In the 1950s, after a number of exposés about conditions in state asylums, a new national reform movement pushed for deinstitutionalization.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
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One is mental illness: The deinstitutionalization and defunding of psychiatric care preceded a spike in homelessness in the 1980s.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 1 May 2022
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As deinstitutionalization gained momentum, an infrastructure to help care for people in their communities was supposed to emerge in its place.
—New York Times, 14 June 2022
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Both trace to the challenges of deinstitutionalization, the national movement that aimed to close large public facilities and provide care through community settings.
—Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
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Citing national trends — ones that are, in large part, the making of activists like herself — is a common line of argument deployed by activists to effectuate their deinstitutionalization agenda.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 18 Nov. 2019
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Both trace to the shortcomings of deinstitutionalization, the national movement that aimed to close large public facilities and provide care through community settings.
—Christina Jewett, CNN, 23 Oct. 2017
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Our collective experience with the fruits of deinstitutionalization should disabuse us of their approach.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 24 July 2019
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Those state beds, whose number has declined dramatically as a result of deinstitutionalization, are mainly occupied by two groups of patients.
—Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
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Mental-health experts point to deinstitutionalization - a national trend since the 1950s to shift psychiatric services out of hospitals and into community settings - as a driver behind the current crisis.
—Nathaniel Morris, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
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Mental-health experts point to deinstitutionalization — a national trend since the 1950s to shift psychiatric services out of hospitals and into community settings — as a driver behind the current crisis.
—Nathaniel Morris, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
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This movement has won specific victories, like passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, as well as more gradual shifts, like inclusion in schools, deinstitutionalization, and the gradual expansion of home care.
—Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
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In a movement called deinstitutionalization, patients who had spent years in state hospitals began being moved into community group settings.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
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While some key ministries such as health were indeed initially knocked out of service by the earthquake, the heavy reliance on international NGOs only exacerbated Haiti’s deinstitutionalization, experts say.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2021
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In the 1960s the deinstitutionalization movement shifted patients from large, crowded psychiatric hospitals to what was viewed as more effective and humane community settings.
—Ron Suskind, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
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Across America, police officers became de facto social workers after deinstitutionalization policies closed many psychiatric hospitals, leaving some patients with nowhere to go — and the right to refuse treatment.
—Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
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The deinstitutionalization of people with major mental illness resulted from an unusual convergence of left-wing and right-wing political critiques, as Mr. Scull emphasizes.
—Richard J. McNally, WSJ, 13 May 2022
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The current crisis comes after more than a half-century of deinstitutionalization has largely emptied out the lockdown psychiatric hospitals where thousands of patients in New York were once held indefinitely under brutal conditions.
—New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
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Distribution Centers' Many of the original architects of the prevention fad later realized their errors, when the failures of deinstitutionalization became too obvious to deny.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
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