Massachusetts’ Cambridge Health Alliance To Close Psychiatric Emergency Unit

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) has announced plans to close its highly regarded, and highly utilized, psychiatric emergency services unit (PES) - a move nurses and mental health advocates believe will decimate the quality and safety of care for psychiatric patients who are in crisis. According to CHA's web site, the hospital will cease operations on the unit on June 4, 2014, at which point, "the PES will move down the hall into the [regular] Emergency Department (ED) at the Cambridge Hospital Campus. All patients seeking emergency care should go to the main entrance of the ED, which is in the . . .