Podcast: Whereas We Wait: Get On Board – The Psychological Well being Boarding Disaster

Welcome to Whereas We Wait, the second sequence from Well being Affairs Pathways. On this sequence, Sania Ali and Avni Kulkarni discover the psychological well being boarding disaster.

To begin, Avni and Sania introduce you to the story of Karin Broadhurst and her son who waited for 36 days within the hospital for psychiatric remedy in Boston.

Lengthy delays in care are commonplace for psychological well being sufferers who arrive within the emergency division (ED). Fairly than a security web, the ED could be a place with no development in remedy the place sufferers watch for change. Why? As a result of a psychological well being emergency might be an emergency that the ED isn’t prepared for.

The Psychological Well being Boarding Disaster refers back to the long-standing, nationwide drawback of holding sufferers for hours, days, and even weeks in emergency departments and different observational settings as a result of there are not any obtainable inpatient psychiatric beds within the hospital.

Visitors on this episode embrace Karin Broadhurst, Dr. Patricia Ibeziako from Boston Youngsters’s Hospital, and Massachusetts State Senator Cindy Friedman.

Whereas We Wait was produced by Sania Ali and Avni Kulkarni for Well being Affairs.

Theme music by Tommy Scanlon.

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