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Behavior
Bills Address Long Waits for Behavioral Health Patients
July 11th, 2009
Healthcare organizations today applauded N.J. Assemblyman Joe Cryan (D-Union) for sponsoring legislation that will improve access to behavioral health services and ease excessively long waits for these vulnerable patients. Surveys have shown that N.J. patients have waited up to a week in hospital emergency departments awaiting transfer to an appropriate behavioral health program. (see below.) Cryan's package of three bills is scheduled for a vote today in the state Assembly. The package has received strong support from the New Jersey Hospital Association and the New Jersey chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. ...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-07-11)
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