Tennessee lawmakers push updated psychiatric bed registry to cut emergency room burden

Amid the debate over mental health care versus gun control, two Rutherford County, Tennessee, lawmakers are hoping to improve the flow of mentally unstable patients to psychiatric hospitals from emergency rooms.

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