title: Community collaborates on services for mentally ill.
abstract: Faced with the closing of the state psychiatric hospital in their community, hospitals, law enforcement, mental health providers, and community agencies in Raleigh, NC, began collaborating on improving care and transitions for the mentally ill. The coalition created a standardized assessment tool and standardized transfer guidelines for mentally ill patients, along with other process improvements. As a result, Duke Raleigh Hospital is transferring more patients to mental health facilities direct from the emergency department rather than keeping them in an inpatient bed waiting for an opening. Hospital case managers get behavioral health patients a follow-up appointment with a mental health provider before they leave the hospital.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D015897:Comorbidity; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D035846:Law Enforcement / Q000379:methods; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D009657:North Carolina; D019982:Organizational Case Studies