transinstitutionalization

== English == === Etymology === From trans- +‎ institutionalization. === Noun === transinstitutionalization (uncountable) The relocation of one or more people from one type of institutional 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). ==== Related terms ==== reinstitutionalization transinstitutionalize