Last week, 307 mentally ill inmates were waiting for one of Florida's 1,416 psychiatric beds, and 72 percent had waited longer than 15 days.
He said the psychiatric beds in the private hospitals were virtually filled.
There are 55 inpatient psychiatric beds on the Mater hospital site.
There are 1,187 psychiatric beds in 11 city hospitals.
There are a surprising number of admissions to psychiatric beds of people who stay only two or three days.
One goal of the new plan is to decrease the average to 21 days, thus making more psychiatric beds available.
Communities receive $57,500 for each psychiatric bed closed.
I want her in a private hospital, so I'm going to try to get her a psychiatric bed before she's taken into custody.
Municipal hospitals would also be required to make psychiatric beds available to homeless adults who needed them.
There are no psychiatric beds available for mentally ill patients.