If you don't have a bed for someone in the hospital, then you can't admit them. If there's someone who needs the bed more, then you have to discharge someone else. It's not about excuses, it's the reality of the state mental hospitals. I think it's a failure to fund the mental health care system adequately, not the failure of staff at the hospital. In the community I live in, the lack of available beds in the hospital even for short term stays and the lack of places for people in the community is appalling. I understand I see it differently than you and I'm okay with that.