Integrating mental health into urgent care in a community health centre.
Competent, convenient mental health assessment and psychosocial intervention are seldom delivered in the right place, at the right time and by the right person. One solution to this problem is to have mental health services integrated into urgent care in a community health centre. Unfortunately, although there is literature on urgent care centres, mental health centres and psychiatric emergency rooms, there is scant information about the integration of mental health services into an urgent care centre.
Southern
Laura
L
Calgary Health Region, South Calgary Health Centre, Alberta.
Leahey
Maureen
M
Harper-Jaques
Sandy
S
McGonigal
Kamla
K
Syverson
Alana
A
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