Time Counts for Mental-Health Patients

Time counts for mental-health patients
The persistent funding shortfall long ago made jails and prisons the primary residential treatment centers for the mentally ill in Colorado, clogged emergency rooms, boosted medical expenses across the board and expanded the ranks of the homeless on … Read more on The Durango Herald

Psychiatric hospital company's staffing problems nationally overlooked by …
In a psychiatric hospital in Chicago the same year, investigators found that violence was “an everyday occurrence,” fueled by understaffing. And when regulators in North Carolina last year took steps to revoke the license of a residential treatment … Read more on Boston.com (blog)

Psychiatric patients boarded in hospital EDs create crisis for patient care …
These strategies include collaborating with other hospitals to place psychiatric patients in open beds, using separate psychiatric EDs, setting up crisis triage centers, and referring patients to residential treatment centers. They're striving to get … Read more on ModernHealthcare.com