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Community partnership ensures MH patients get needed care
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31935
Subject(s) - general partnership , emergency department , medical emergency , mental health , health care , nursing , medicine , psychology , business , psychiatry , political science , finance , law
For a person experiencing a serious mental health or other health care need, and with nowhere else to turn, they may feel caught up in an endless cycle of 911 calls along with hospital and emergency department visits. While some calls may indeed be emergencies, others may be handled more appropriately in a clinic or physician's office.