'Crisis' necessitates expansion of SMC emergency department's behavioral health unit | Top Stories

WATERTOWN — In the summer of 2022, Samaritan Medical Center’s emergency department had a stretch of 45 days straight in which its volume of behavioral health patients necessitated a diversion

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