Children in a mental health crisis can spend days languishing in the ER

The study looked at records for more than 250,000 emergency department visits by children who are on Medicaid.

A new study finds that nearly 1 in 10 kids on Medicaid visiting an emergency department for mental health care remain stuck there for days waiting for follow up psychiatric care.

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