transinstitutionalization

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Noun

1. The [[relocation]] of one or more people from one type of [[institution]]al facility to another (for example from a residential psychiatric [[hospital]] to a [[prison]], a general hospital, or a [[nursing home]]), either intentionally (as a planned transfer) or as a side effect of another decision (such as a governmental decision to close residential mental hospitals).

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