Maimonides Medical Center will soon open a new psychiatric emergency department to accept patients in crisis, one of a ...

Only a fraction of those calls require an emergency response. Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, which handles 988 calls from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Imperial and ...

The use of the ED for behavioral health and social problems has a profound effect on both patients and providers.

A 9-year-old boy lived for weeks in a hospital emergency room, dressed in paper scrubs, because his parents couldn't handle him and the state's social services agency had nowhere to place him. A ...

More than 40 percent of the 7,000 people who are admitted for emergency services also require admission to the hospital for inpatient care. The average length of stay for those patients is 10 days.

Emergency psychiatric services and clinical and diagnostic COVID-19 screening of psychiatric emergency patients are needed during the ongoing pandemic, according to study results published in ...

MetroHealth worked closely with the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County to open the psychiatric emergency department, MetroHealth said.

St. Vincent, a ministry of the Sisters of Charity Health System, closed its emergency department and ended inpatient care in November 2022. It shuttered its psychiatric emergency services unit on June ...

When patients with mental health crises arrive in my emergency department, I'd love to have a way to get them the higher-level care they need for their psychiatric issues.

Nearly half of all patients who visited S.F. General’s Psychiatric Emergency Services in 2017 and 2018 were related to methamphetamine use, according to a 2019 city report.