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Virtual clinic to assist patients with urgent psychiatric care
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32338
Subject(s) - covid-19 , mental health , mental health care , mental healthcare , medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency , nursing , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
As Maryland braces for a surge of COVID‐19 cases, the country's largest private provider of nonprofit mental health and substance use services has launched a virtual crisis walk‐in clinic to avail the state's residents with an online mental assessment by a provider and connection to the most appropriate follow‐up care. Officials say the goal is to decrease emergency room visits for psychiatric patients during this time.