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What does deinstitutionalize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To perform deinstitutionalization upon; to free from an institution or from dependence upon an institution.
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The thrust of the policy was to deinstitutionalize psychiatric care and promote the development of alternative, community-based services.
If these relationships feature some stability, they are nevertheless dynamic because they are constantly the object of politicalwork in order to institutionalize, deinstitutionalize or reinstitutionalize them.
The residential Inspired exterior design uses a variety of economic materials to help reduce the scale of the building and deinstitutionalize the overall feel of the facility.
The Committee further welcomes the commitment of the State party to deinstitutionalize children while at the same time enhance standards in the existing institutions.
Despite the growing movement to deinstitutionalize patient care, responsibility and ownership continue to rest largely with traditional health care institutions.
So there's definitely been a move in the Legislature over the last two sessions to deinstitutionalize kids, to divert them to community-based programs.

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