Doctors Hope New Mental Health Care Funds Ease Crisis, USA

Often the highest-level, immediately-available care a person suffering a mental health crisis can receive is at their local emergency room (ER). For these psychiatric patients, the ER is a destination of last resort - other than jail. Texas’ funding for psychiatric care is insufficient, physicians say, causing huge gaps in patient care. The situation is about to improve however, and not a moment too soon, according to physicians of the Texas Medical Association (TMA). [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Mental Health on December 20th, 2007