Massachusetts’ Cambridge Health Alliance To Reduce Child Psychiatric Care

Circle Connections: New Products & Services The Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is eliminating 11 of its 27 inpatient beds for child psychiatric care and ceasing service for children under the age of eight, representatives from the hospital announced April 3. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, along with the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association for the Mentally Ill, have both decried the decision. Every day, CHA nurse Kerry McCalister sees children in a state of crisis. Some are suicidal or homicidal, some are experiencing auditory or visual hallucinations, some are so aggressive they can't make it through a school day . . .