UKHealthCare Opens EmPATH Psychiatric Emergency Unit In Lexington, Kentucky 

A new hospital emergency psychiatric unit recently opened in Lexington, Kentucky. The site, part of UK HealthCare, is known as an Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) unit. ;

The UK HealthCare EmPATH Psychiatric Unit at Eastern State Hospital is dedicated to the treatment of consumers experiencing a mental health crisis. There are about 30 EmPATH units operating in the U.S.;;

The Eastern State Hospital EmPATH unit has room for up to 12 adults aged 18 and over experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Like other EmPATH units, its physical environment was carefully designed with open spaces . . .