Psychiatric Boarding: Evolving Models For Community Crisis Centers

Last year OPEN MINDS covered the issue of psychiatric boarding – when a patient in psychiatric emergency remains in a hospital emergency department while waiting for admission to a psychiatric facility – from a number of perspectives:

Washington Ban On Psychiatric ER Boarding May Have Longer Legs
Another Perspective On Psychiatric Boarding
You Have To Take Something Out, To Put Something In
Hospital Strategies For Addressing Psychiatric Boarding
Psych Boarding Top Priority For Emergency Physicians – But What Does That Mean?

In response, Verletta Saxon, Ph.D., Crisis Assistant Director at Centerstone wrote the below article offering a solution – community alternatives may provide . . .