M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital Launches New EmPATH Crisis Mental Health Care Model

M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital opened a new outpatient mental health care model called the Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing (EmPATH) service. It provides people in crisis with immediate access to a team of mental health experts in a calming, living-room-style environment. After a quick triage process, people with mental health or substance use disorder needs will be guided to the EmPATH unit. The goal is to reduce the likelihood that they will need to be admitted into a hospital’s inpatient psychiatric unit.

EmPATH spaces are designed to be soothing and relaxing, with natural light, comfortable . . .