Arizona has 29 high-level inpatient psychiatric beds per 100,000 people.
The nonprofit Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center says when it comes to beds for the public health system, Arizona's psychiatric bed-per-population rate is just 5.9 per 100,000 people - the second-worst rate in the country.
State officials say the bed numbers here are consistent with a philosophy of the least restrictive environment, which means keeping patients in an outpatient setting wherever possible.
Acute level psychiatric beds in Pima County
Adolescent/children:
56
Sonora Behavioral Health
Adult
64
University Physicians Healthcare Hospital at Kino (New construction should boost that to 77 by August)
8
University Medical Center
15
St. Joseph's Carondelet
24
St. Mary's Carondelet
48
Tucson Medical Center
139
Sierra Tucson
354
Pima County total (adults and adolescents/children)
1,900
Current statewide total (adults and adolscents/children)
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