And The Solution Is…

Our recent briefing on the psychiatric boarding issue (see Reducing Psychiatric Boarding – What Will Work?) and the proposed American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Congressional solution to the issue (see Policy Solutions to Emergency Department Boarding) garnered many comments from our readers. My OPEN MINDS colleagues had their take on which of the proposed solutions would work (see Reducing Psych Boarding: OPEN MINDS Expert Perspectives).

In response, my friend and OPEN MINDS Advisory Board member Jamie Stewart, the Chief Executive Officer of Grafton, raised two important issues. The first was about the psychiatric boarding statistics cited by ACEP. In his . . .