Getting help for a psychiatric crisis at a hospital emergency room is not wrong, but there are alternatives that may be safer and less overwhelming. A security guard in a Valley hospital emergency ...

Sonoma County’s emergency room for psychiatric patients closed suddenly due to mold. Now hospitals are feeling the strain With no secure, overnight option for treating local patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 1 in 3 kids who go to an emergency room (ER) amid a mental health crisis wait at least 12 hours to be transferred ...

Patients seen at the psychiatric emergency room can be admitted to the MetroHealth Behavioral Health Hospital if they are over 18, she said. Emergency room patients also can be referred to other ...