Community Alternative Response Emergency Services, the City of Madison’s service for responding to behavioral health emergencies, introduced a third team which will be in service on weekdays from noon ...

Amid warnings that emergency departments are not fully equipped to meet rising mental and behavioral health (MBH) needs of minors, a trio of healthcare professional organizations is calling for more ...

In May 2022, the New York Times reported on a heartbreaking situation unfolding at a local emergency department (ED). Fifteen adolescents in mental health crisis (many of them experiencing suicidal ...

While Baltimore officials applaud improvements to the city’s behavioral health diversion system, they acknowledge that the ...

The issue of ED boarding – holding admitted patients in the ED – has reached “public health emergency” levels according to the American College of Emergency Physicians. The crisis is especially acute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JPS Health Network will open its new psychiatric emergency center next week, expanding desperately needed treatment to those in ...

Two people enduring mental health emergencies in Baltimore — one shot by police and the other taken for help after holding officers at bay for 16 hours — are just two examples of what police say ...