Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night. - The New York Times

With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.

Absent that option, emergency rooms have taken up the slack. A recent study of 88 pediatric hospitals around the country found that 87 of them regularly board children and adolescents overnight in th… [+1636 chars]

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