{"id":132772,"date":"2025-09-10T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132772\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:10:08","slug":"n-y-mental-health-association-on-psychiatric-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132772\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Mental Health Association on psychiatric hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Budget Division, the state is preparing for a growing structural budget deficit with a cumulative three-year budget gap of over $34 billion. That means the state needs to either find new revenues, like raising taxes, or cut expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The Mental Health Association of New York State has some ideas on where to trim.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Liebman, chief executive officer of the Mental Health Association of New York State, says the organization is recommending the creation of a State Psychiatric Hospital Closure commission like the federal base closure commissions of the 1990s and 2000s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liebman discussed the idea with Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the New York Budget Division, the state is preparing for a growing structural budget deficit with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[72322,72319,72317,19475,72321,49,48,72318,72316,84,392,393,394,1013,44,72320,714,72315,39,1016],"class_list":["post-132772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-capital-tonight","tag-app-health","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}