When Dr. Scott Zeller was head of the psychiatric emergency services at a California hospital 15 years ago he found that many psychiatric patients who came through the Emergency Department for care ...

West Springs Hospital in Grand Junction was the only option for inpatient psychiatric treatment between metro Denver and Salt ...

NYU Langone is planning to build a new psychiatric emergency program at its Sunset Park hospital amid a state-led effort to increase treatment capacity for individuals in the throes of mental ...

In May 2021, Andrew Neiman walked out of the emergency room after apparently waiting more than 14 hours to be transferred to a psychiatric unit. He was unsupervised in the ER despite a ...

Patients seeking psychiatric treatment sometimes had to wait days in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center’s emergency room for space at facilities across the state to open up, the hospital told ...

As part of the settlement, WMCHealth will restore inpatient psychiatric beds that were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and implement extensive reforms to better serve emergency room patients ...

Recognize the prevalence of and the behaviors commonly associated with malingering within psychiatric emergency settings, and the lack of indication for inpatient psychiatric admission in the ...