People with mental illness wait longer in emergency departments and psychiatric units of hospitals nearby, according to poll

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Almost 80% of hospitals say that the mentally ill would be admitted to hospital must wait, sometimes for four hours or more to be admitted because of a lack of psychiatric beds and mental health personnel for the Study of the American College of Emergency Physicians, USA Today reports. For comparison, 30% from the hospital, said patients not seeking psychiatric care had to wait four hours or more before they are admitted.

For the study, ACEP officials surveyed 328 emergency medical directors. The study also found:

1. Approximately 10% of directors, said psychiatric patients waiting more than the average per day;


2. 84% of directors said Ed would reduce the waiting time for all patients if their psychiatric hospitals provide better service;


3. Half of the respondents psychiatric hospital units, while the remaining patients to other facilities, and


4. 61% of those surveyed hospitals do not have the staff ED psychiatric care for patients while they wait, but patients who received the attention of other medical problems.

Number of beds in psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. community had fallen 12% since 2000, compared with a decrease of 4% of the total number of hospital beds, according ACEP.

According to James Bentley from the American Hospital Association, clinics, psychiatric units have begun to close because of low payments from government programs and health insurance, uncompensated services to uninsured patients and the shortage of psychiatrists to work in hospitals. Bruce Schwartz, director of psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center, said: "For people needing to register because they are psychotic or severe depression, which can be very unpleasant, disturbing, confusing time" (Appleby, USA Today, 6 / 17).

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