I have never been in patient where internet or cell-phone access was allowed. Think about it. People with psychoses, mania, suicidal depression, or explosive rage issues having access to the internet? I'm sorry but that's NUTS. I'm not even allowed to use the wall telephones when I'm manic and psychotic. I'm just too ill to have any kind of meaningful conversation with another person. I really think that if you are healthy enough to communicate appropriately on the internet, maybe you don't need inpatient treatment. And if you are really ill, you shouldn't BE on the internet. Everything you put in cyberspace stays FOREVER. Do you want some manic rant to the President on a Secret Service Agent's to-do list? How about a death threat to your boss lingering in cyberspace? Or how about writing a long painful suicide note and emailing it to your entire contact list?People are inpatient for a reason. They are too ill to function outside the hospital. So don't give access to outside the hospital when they are that ill and ruin their lives once they've recovered.