Central State Hospital main building (photo courtesy Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
Joshua Norris is with the Georgia Advocacy Office. He says he has grave concerns about that plan because community-based services are not in place.
"There have been documented instances of discharging to homeless shelters, and buying tickets to, on the bus, things of that nature."
State officials deny those claims. Norris says patients being transferred to other state hospitals are also faced with moving hundreds of miles away from family and their communities.
