Hospital emergency rooms are poorly equipped to serve patients with complex psychiatric emergencies. Unfortunately, with access to mental health treatment in short supply, this is often where patients ...

When a child is experiencing a mental health crisis, families increasingly turn to the emergency department for help.

People who visit the emergency department (ED) for mental health care are transferred to another facility at a rate 6 times higher than people who visit EDs for non-psychiatric conditions, and they ...

On Monday, nearly all of South Shore Hospital’s pediatric emergency beds were occupied by children who were suicidal. The 10 patients, some of whom had been there 12 days or more, were waiting for a ...

Medical screening of adult patients with psychiatric complaints in the emergency department varies widely, and evidence ...

JPS Health Network will open its new psychiatric emergency center next week, expanding desperately needed treatment to those in need. The psychiatric emergency center is the hospital's first major ...

In a multicenter emergency department (ED) cohort of patients on chronic psychiatric medications, restarting outpatient medications within 24 hours was not associated with the overall length of stay ...

Continuity of clinicians significantly improves the likelihood of follow-up attendance following a psychiatric emergency presentation. Following psychiatric emergency presentation, patients are 3 ...