Factors such as work-life balance pressures, financial anxieties, and societal expectations significantly contribute to this increase A recent study reveals a concerning surge in psychiatric ...

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 ...

Part of the changing landscape of behavioral health in Cuyahoga County in the new year is a new crisis center in Cleveland's ...

More than 80 percent of emergency room physicians say the mental healthcare systems in their regions are dysfunctional, and do not adequately serve patients, according to a survey done in December by ...

In May 2022, the New York Times reported on a heartbreaking situation unfolding at a local emergency department (ED). Fifteen adolescents in mental health crisis (many of them experiencing suicidal ...

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

For decades, hospitals have strained to accommodate patients in psychiatric crisis in emergency rooms. The horror stories of failure abound: Patients heavily sedated or shackled to gurneys for days ...

Last year, I had the privilege of participating in a panel hosted by the National Alliance to End Homelessness titled "Black Men and Homelessness: Addressing an Overlooked Crisis." As a result of that ...

Community Alternative Response Emergency Services, the City of Madison’s service for responding to behavioral health emergencies, introduced a third team which will be in service on weekdays from noon ...

The facility, to be built on the hospital’s San Diego campus, will double inpatient capacity and quadruple emergency space ...