Mental health care cost unlikely to fall

Any saving from a proposed downsizing of Milwaukee County’s Mental Health Complex would likely be eaten up by rising costs of shifting more patients to community-based care, supervisors said Tuesday. The county is moving toward building a new complex for about 120 patients – fewer than half the number now treated at the old complex on the County Grounds – and caring for more patients in outpatient programs. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 5/11)