Interactions between police and someone in psychiatric crisis can end in violence. Communities have been sending mental ...

New York is allocating $43 million to expand youth psychiatric emergency programs and inpatient mental health beds, the ...

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

State mental health officials are pouring more funds into new emergency mental health programs to quell New York’s persistent psychiatric care shortage. The state’s Office of Mental Health has ...

MetroHealth has opened a psychiatric emergency department at its Cleveland Heights Medical Center following this summer’s shutdown of St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center’s psychiatric ...

Psychiatric hospitals could close beds under proposed state rules if regulators don’t allow implementation time, facilities warn.

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 ...