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Study Sheds New Light on Twin Cities' Mental Health Care Crisis
Published in Hospital Business Week, April 1st, 2007
A new study by major Twin Cities hospitals and the Anoka County Metro Regional Treatment Center found that 40 to 50 ER patients per month are unnecessarily admitted to metro area hospitals because they do not have access to less intensive resources. An additional 250 patients per month spend unnecessary time in inpatient psychiatric units because of a lack of residential treatment beds or other alternatives. According to estimates by hospitals, this adds up to more than $24 million in costs to the system annually.
"There is bottleneck in the system," said Michael Trangle, M.D., associate medical director of behavioral health for HealthPartners. "Our hospitals' emergency...
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