A farm, not an institution [News.Vice.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/26/174:00 AM

This segment originally aired Jan. 13, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

A farm in Mesopotamia, Ohio — one of just six therapeutic farms in the United States — is treating people with mental illness.

In 1955, 560,000 patients lived full time in state psychiatric facilities. Today, just 45,000 do. Psychiatric hospitals were shuttered, in part, because of widespread reports of patient abuse. Now, many of the country’s mentally ill are on the streets or in prison.

Private insurance companies, however, prefer to cover hospital stays. Despite its effectiveness, Hopewell can’t keep its beds full because so few people can afford to pay out-of-pocket.

[For more of this story, written by Mac McClelland, go to https://news.vice.com/story/li...-to-psychiatric-care]

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