Hospital emergency rooms are poorly equipped to serve patients with complex psychiatric emergencies. Unfortunately, with access to mental health treatment in short supply, this is often where patients ...

More than ever, hospitals and health systems are focused on ensuring efficient operations amid workforce, patient flow and financial challenges. That is why some organizations are taking a new ...

DERBY, Conn. (WTNH) — A brand new unit is now open at Griffin Hospital in Derby, taking a step forward in addressing the need for mental health crisis services. It’s called “EmPATH,” which stands for ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The McNabb Center opened Tennessee’s first Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) Unit last year to provide around-the-clock mental health care for people ...

The 11 patients in psychiatric crisis appeared anything but in the EmPATH unit at Southdale Hospital in Edina. Most sank into recliners and listened to music in the airy, dim room. A couple played ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - New units designed to treat people who in a mental health crisis are set to open in the Lowcountry. Trident Medical Center has been operating an EmPATH mental health crisis ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A new behavioral health facility is coming to East Tennessee. The first of its kind in the state, the EmPATH Unit aims to get the right help to the right patients as quickly as ...

It’s an effort to address the overwhelming mental health crisis in our community. MUSC’s Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital recently debuted a dedicated space for the mental health of children. The ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — With its footprint spread across Kentucky, UK HealthCare is taking a big step forward. On Tuesday, community and state leaders cut the ribbon on the first psychiatric ...

Yesterday, community and state leaders joined UK HealthCare officials to celebrate the opening of a new emergency unit dedicated to the treatment of patients experiencing a mental health crisis. The ...

Kentucky’s first emergency psychiatric hospital opens today. UK HealthCare will start seeing patients at the Emergency Psychiatric Assessment Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) unit at 7 p.m. July 30 on ...