When an acute behavioral health crisis hits, employees need better options

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  • Key insight: Discover how specialized crisis receiving centers are bypassing traditional emergency room boarding processes.
  • What’s at stake: Patients facing multi-day ER boarding delays and employers absorbing high acute-care costs.
  • Supporting data: 65% of patients can be stabilized and receive a discharge plan in 24 hours. 

Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review.

Lee Hafner
Editor

Lee joined the EBN team in 2022, and covers areas including caregiving, employee health and wellness, healthcare innovation, and company culture. She created EBN's popular Benefits in Action and … Read full bio


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