Across the country, mental health-related ER visits shot up 66 percent from 2013 - 2018, according to a study published in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.
More Americans going through a mental health crisis are seeking care in hospital emergency rooms not always equipped to give the psychiatric care they need, a Newsy investigation has learned.
“Our rooms are full,” said Robyn Chadwick, president of Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph hospital in Wichita, Kansas. An audit from the Government Accountability Office this spring found mental health patients with insurance “experience challenges finding in-network providers.”Emergency rooms also cope with a surge in behavioral health visits related to substance abuse.Patients with nowhere else to go are flooding emergency rooms.
The ER closest to her in Manhattan, Kansas, was like many nationwide that don’t have a behavioral health unit.She was so desperate for care, she steered herself in a wheelchair toward traffic outside the ER so she could get into a state hospital.A Newsy analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found of all psychiatric patients who go to the ER, about 11 percent leave without a follow-up plan for care.
To prevent suicide by hanging, doors have special handles. Televisions mounted to the wall don’t have exposed cords.“It has become very personal,” Chadwick said. “My oldest daughter, who's now 22, attempted suicide twice as a freshman in high school. And it really hit home. She's what drives me to make sure that everyone who needs care gets it.”
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