A crisis in adolescent psych.
The number of children and adolescents needing mental health services has surged; yet state mental hospitals are closing and private for-profit psychiatric facilities are getting out of the business. Hospitals that still offer inpatient psychiatric beds are often full, with long waiting lists. So who fills the breach? The hospital emergency department.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006783:Hospitals, State / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology