The right to treatment

Much of the right-to-treatment litigation has focused on establishing standards of care and concomitant stang patterns. In the 1940s, the APA maintained that there should be no less than one psychiatrist for every 150 hospitalized patients, one graduate nurse for every 40 patients, and one attendant for every 8 patients, but no state hospital of the day met all the APA’s standards (Deutsch 1948).