There are 54 private psychiatric hospitals in Texas that receive taxpayer money to divert mental health patients — both youths and adults — from the burgeoning waitlist for state psychiatric beds. Between 2014 and 2019, those hospitals racked up nearly 1,100 state and federal violations and were fined $1.4 million by the state, a Houston Chronicle investigation found.

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From the Texas Trial Lawyers Association news release.