TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - "Psychological boarding" and community-based behavioral health crisis stabilization JO - Community mental health journal A1 - Mukherjee, Dhrubodhi A1 - Saxon, Verletta SP - 375 EP - 384 VL - 55 IS - 3 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 0010-3853 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-018-0237-9 ID - ref1 ER -