Judge: Psychiatric patients can't be held in emergency rooms

New Hampshire’s practice of temporarily boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency departments is an illegal seizure of the hospitals’ property that disrupts care for other patients in need, a federal judge has ruled.In an order issued Feb....

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