How to Use deinstitutionalization in a Sentence

deinstitutionalization

noun

• The mass deinstitutionalization that came in its wake was the goal of the policy.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 6 Aug. 2019
• The first of these factors was the rise of the deinstitutionalization movement.
  — Rachel Burr Gerrard, STAT, 13 Feb. 2022
• Decades ago, there was deinstitutionalization of those with mental illness.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024
• At the same time, the process of deinstitutionalization — the discharge of unwell patients from mental asylums — had begun in earnest.
  — Michael J. Lewis, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• They were left abandoned after the advent of modern medicine and a shift toward deinstitutionalization.
  — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2019
• But the move toward deinstitutionalization, critics say, has been too modest.
  — Michael Schulson/undark, Popular Science, 22 June 2020
• But the move toward deinstitutionalization, critics says, has been too modest.
  — Michael Schulson, Quartz, 25 June 2020
• That sentiment echoes the latest foray in a much larger, longer-running push for deinstitutionalization.
  — Michael Schulson, Quartz, 25 June 2020
• Decades after deinstitutionalization, some autistic children remain stuck in hospitals for lack of other options, and their parents are afraid or unable to bring them home.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• As deinstitutionalization gained momentum, an infrastructure to help care for people in their communities was supposed to emerge in its place.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• Many of the current problems in policing related to mental health can be traced back to America’s deinstitutionalization.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• Our collective experience with the fruits of deinstitutionalization should disabuse us of their approach.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 24 July 2019
• Those state beds, whose number has declined dramatically as a result of deinstitutionalization, are mainly occupied by two groups of patients.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• In a movement called deinstitutionalization, patients who had spent years in state hospitals began being moved into community group settings.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• The erosion of cultural norms together with the deinstitutionalization of those with drug problems and mental illness lays bare what happens when a society takes down the guardrails of civil behavior.
  — WSJ, 30 May 2022
• Even now, decades after deinstitutionalization, communities are trying to rebuild resources and safety nets.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• Both trace to the challenges of deinstitutionalization, the national movement that aimed to close large public facilities and provide care through community settings.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
• Citing national trends — ones that are, in large part, the making of activists like herself — is a common line of argument deployed by activists to effectuate their deinstitutionalization agenda.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 18 Nov. 2019
• Both trace to the shortcomings of deinstitutionalization, the national movement that aimed to close large public facilities and provide care through community settings.
  — Christina Jewett, CNN, 23 Oct. 2017
• The number of state mental institutions in Illinois dropped many years ago as part of a nationwide deinstitutionalization dating back to the 1950s.
  — Sarah Enelow-Snyder, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• The population of nursing homes doubled in the decades following deinstitutionalization.
  — Sarah E. Ryan, Time, 20 Apr. 2021
• In the 1950s, after a number of exposés about conditions in state asylums, a new national reform movement pushed for deinstitutionalization.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 June 2017
• Over the decades, the facility drastically shrank, reflecting a larger deinstitutionalization sweeping the state and country amid concerns over abuse at state psychiatric hospitals.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
• There was little follow-through after deinstitutionalization.
  — WSJ, 23 May 2022
• These programs began gaining support in the 1980s, offered as a solution during the deinstitutionalization movement of the time which wanted to prevent the abuse of patients locked away in psychiatric wards.
  — Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
• As the deinstitutionalization movement took off, many children who would have been diagnosed with mental retardation were instead diagnosed with autism, not because the diagnosis was more accurate but because its treatment was preferable.
  — Rachel Burr Gerrard, STAT, 13 Feb. 2022
• Public policy makers who funded mental institutions wanted to keep track of the number of people with particular disorders, but in an era of deinstitutionalization, numbers aren’t as important.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 28 Jan. 2026
• Since the 1950s, the United States has seen a dramatic decline in the number of psychiatric beds nationwide due in part to deinstitutionalization and the rise of antipsychotics.
  — Helen Santoro, Denver Post, 29 June 2026
• Decades ago, progressives pushed the unprecedented social experiment known as deinstitutionalization of the severely mentally ill.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• In the late 20th century, public mental institutions were shuttered nationwide amid a deinstitutionalization wave.
  — Caitlin McCabe, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018