Désinstitutionnalisation: The reduction of services in psychiatric wards to mental-health or developmentally-handicapped patients, generally achieved by removing patients from hospitals and moving them to less-supervised facilities.
As seen in: « Le Curateur public a demandé un réexamen complet de tous les dossiers de désinstitutionnalisation en santé mentale, à la suite d’un rapport du coroner Pierre Guilmette. »
(Translation: “The Public Guardian has asked for a complete reevaluation of all mental-health deinstitutionalization cases, following a report by coroner Pierre Guilmette.”)
