The pandemic has so strained already tight state psychiatric facilities in Georgia, Virginia, Texas and elsewhere that they struggle to admit new patients.
."The current crisis is unprecedented in the extent, severity and sweep of its national impact."
States are focused on suicide prevention and crisis services to reduce pressure on emergency rooms and inpatient services, Hepburn said.In Georgia, about 100 beds in the state's five psychiatric hospitals — about 10 percent — are empty because there's no one to take care of the patients who would occupy them. Space in short-term crisis units is also squeezed.
Kim Jones, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Georgia, said she has gotten more calls about people with mental health needs who can't get long-term hospital services as the backlog increases.
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