Mental Health Crisis in Emergency Departments: Why ERs Are Overwhelmed

A healthcare worker offers calm, supportive care to a patient during a mental health crisis in an emergency department.

A significant change has been occurring inside hospital emergency rooms throughout America. Builders originally designed these facilities to handle heart attacks, broken bones, and other physical emergencies. Nevertheless, they have slowly transformed into something entirely different. Many emergency departments now function as pseudo-psychiatric units, serving as makeshift mental health wards. This shift did not happen […]