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After A.S.: Proposals To Alleviate Psychiatric Boarding In Maine, Meredith K. Cook
After A.S.: Proposals To Alleviate Psychiatric Boarding In Maine, Meredith K. Cook
Maine Law Review
When someone presents to an emergency room with a mental illness manifesting in danger to themselves or others, they can be admitted against their will on an emergency basis to inpatient mental health care through a process colloquially known as a Blue Paper application. However, when an inpatient bed is not immediately available, patients are “boarded” against their will in emergency rooms with little to no therapeutic care, sometimes for several weeks at a time before they are transferred to inpatient care, or their condition stabilizes enough for them to be discharged into the community. In February 2020, a man …
No-One Receives Psychiatric Treatment In A Squad Car, Judy A. Clausen, Joanmarie Davoli
No-One Receives Psychiatric Treatment In A Squad Car, Judy A. Clausen, Joanmarie Davoli
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