Virginia Launches Online Statewide Psychiatric Bed Registry

Virginia mental health workers have a new tool to find psychiatric beds for people being held for treatment under emergency custody orders. The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services says an online statewide psychiatric bed registry recently went live. The Virginia Acute Psychiatric and CSB Bed Registry lists available psychiatric beds at private psychiatric hospitals, state facilities and crisis stabilization units. This was reported by the Associated Press on March 5, 2014.

Contact information: John Pezzoli, Acting Commissioner, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services, 1220 Bank Street, Richmond, VA, 23219; (804) 786-3921; E-mail: john . . .