Reducing Psychiatric Boarding – What Will Work?
Last week, the American College of Emergency Physicians, Emergency Nurses Association, and National Alliance on Mental Illness held a congressional briefing to persuade lawmakers to adopt their proposed solutions to addressing the rise in psychiatric boarding in emergency departments. Many of those are included in a bipartisan bill on improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act that has been introduced in the House of Representatives.
The numbers are stark. Nearly all emergency room physicians reported boarding times longer than …
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