Citation

Mukherjee D, Saxon V. Community Ment. Health J. 2019; 55(3): 375-384.

Affiliation

Office of Education & Transition Services, Office of Child Well-Being, 100 W. Randolph St., 6-229, Chicago, IL, 60601, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-018-0237-9

PMID

29380094

Abstract

This exploratory paper presents a case study where a community based mental health organization forging a partnership with a local hospital system to establish a crisis stabilization unit (CSU) to address behavioral health emergency care. The study takes a mixed methods case study approach to address two research questions; (a) did this approach reduce the overall length of stay in the hospital emergency departments? (b) What challenges did the taskforce face in implementing this CSU model? The paper shares recommendation from the findings.

Language: en

Keywords

Behavioral health emergencies; Community; Crisis stabilization; Hospital; Rural