Pediatric Patients in Acute Mental Health Crisis Face Long Waits
Pediatric mental health boarding in the ED is a growing crisis. Understand the multifactorial causes and emerging solutions for these vulnerable patients.
Psychiatric Boarding
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Pediatric Patients in Acute Mental Health Crisis Face Long Waits
Pediatric mental health boarding in the ED is a growing crisis. Understand the multifactorial causes and emerging solutions for these vulnerable patients. -
A Potential Solution to America’s Psychiatric Boarding Crisis
Dr. Elizabeth Wharff was the director of emergency psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital in the late 1990s... -
Keep Safe While Boarding Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department
Mental health complaints comprise a significant and growing portion of ED visits nationwide. A recent governmental report...
A Potential Solution to America’s Psychiatric Boarding Crisis
Dr. Elizabeth Wharff was the director of emergency psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital in the late 1990s…
Keep Safe While Boarding Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department
Mental health complaints comprise a significant and growing portion of ED visits nationwide. A recent governmental report…
Coding for Behavioral Health Patients With Extended Stays
Editor’s Note: Cutting through the red tape to make certain that you get paid for every dollar…
Extended ED Mental Health Care Now Reportable as Observation
One in eight visits to the emergency department is related to a mental health or substance abuse…
ACEP Seeks Cosponsors for Bill to Improve Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department
Contact your legislators to cosponsor S. 1334/ H.R. 2519, the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency…
ACEP Refines Its Clinical Policy on Psychiatric Boarding
In January 2017, the ACEP Board of Directors approved a clinical policy developed by the ACEP Clinical…