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everyoneisnuts t1_jahqb8o wrote

All exactly on point. It is like that almost everywhere too. There needs to be a significant investment in A LOT more psychiatric triage and inpatient facilities if they want to be able to circumvent the ER. Only possible way to do it. It is needed on every angle imaginable too. Better for the overcrowding of ERs, better for the patients, as they are going to a facility and triage center that would ideally specialize in psychiatric disorders, and also ideally would at least hold them there where they can get treated by specialists instead of at hospitals. It’s all about the almighty dollar and how insurance does not pay well for behavioral health. That is why nobody wants to open up psychiatric facilitates. If they incentivized it that way, you better believe you would see more facilities.

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