Alternatives to crowded waiting rooms are being explored for mental health patients
Madison Croskery says she was traumatized by being locked in a hospital's suicide watch room in North Bay.Emergency departments are struggling to find new ways to treat mental-health patients, with a growing recognition that crowded waiting rooms are not the best place for a person struggling with suicidal thoughts or psychosis.
Across the country, many hospitals are working on changes to their emergency rooms, often by redirecting mental-health patients to separate areas. The Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ont., hopes to become the first in Canada to have an EmPath unit; the hospital, which currently doesn’t have an emergency department, has submitted a proposal to the province as part of a larger expansion. The unit, which would have 32 recliners, would cost about $35-million to build, according to the proposal, and require an estimated $12-million a year to operate.
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