Trumbull admissions to state mental hospitals triple

WARREN — WARREN

Trumbull County admissions to state mental hospitals have tripled since 2010, reaching what the Trumbull County Board of Mental Health and Recovery has called an “unprecedented” use of such facilities.

April Caraway, executive director of Trumbull MHRB, attributed the increase to the Medicaid expansion from Gov. John Kasich that took effect Jan. 1, 2014.

The expansion allowed 563,000 more Ohioans to be covered by the federal healthcare program by lowering the requirements to include households with incomes of up to 138 percent of the povert rate.