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Enhance behavioral health crisis systems to improve health, reduce costs

May 28, 2020

Sherry Dubester

Behavioral Health, Crisis Response, Health Care Delivery

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People with mental health and substance use disorder challenges are using emergency department (ED) services more frequently than in prior years.

From 2006 to 2013, there has been a 52 percent increase in ED utilization by people with serious mental illness (SMI).

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