A Potential Solution to America’s Psychiatric Boarding Crisis
ACEP Now
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Elizabeth Wharff was the director of emergency psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital in the late 1990s when she became concerned about what was, then, a new problem. Psychiatric Boarding The practice of psychiatric “boarding”—or keeping patients in the ED, while they wait for inpatient beds—emerged in the mid- to late-90s.
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