Acute Need for Emergency Psych Care in Missouri
Missouri Lawyers Media › October 24, 2010
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The state is shutting its centers that treat acute psychiatric patients, leaving judges scratching their heads over where to send patients they order committed for treatment.
Another result: Hospitals are beefing up security in emergency departments to handle mentally ill patients' violence against doctors and nurses.See the full content of this document
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Acute Need for Emergency Psych Care in Missouri
Typically, people are committed if a court finds that because of a mental disorder they are in danger of seriously harming themselves or others.
The state's "decision to abandon the field of acute care and leave these people without a remedy was not unnoticed," Scotland County Associate Circuit Judge Karl DeMarce said during a meeting of associate and probate judges at the Missouri Judicial Conference in Columbia in late September.No money, n...See the full content of this document
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