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Mental health epidemic creates emergency department backlog

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Mental health epidemic creates emergency department backlog

Medical associations, patient advocates, public health organizations and health systems are asking for federal and state help to address the escalating number of mental health patients seeking care at hospital emergency departments.

Patients are being held in emergency departments for as long as months as they await psychiatric beds. Many outpatient referral partners have cut back or are also struggling with staffing. The patient burden is…

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