Nowhere else to turn. As the ax falls on mental health funding, hospital EDs fill the gap--reluctantly.
As the ax falls on mental health funding, state mental hospitals are closing and investor-owned psychiatric organizations are filing for bankruptcy or shifting their focus to more lucrative general acute care services. That leaves patients--many of them uninsured--with nowhere to seek help except hospital emergency departments.
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