Two-person co-response teams have been serving Cleveland s five police districts since 2020, and officials approved adding a second team at each of the districts.
Two-person co-response teams have been serving Cleveland s five police districts since 2020, and officials approved adding a second team at each of the districts.
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Angela Cecys will spearhead efforts to coordinate the city’s public health and public safety crisis intervention responses, including the development of emergency co-response and non-police care response teams, said Dr. David Margolius, the city's director of public health.
While MetroHealth opens its new behavioral health center in Cleveland Heights this week, the fate of Cleveland’s only 24-hour psychiatric emergency room is still being debated. After Nov. 15 when St. Vincent Charity Medical Center’s psych ER is scheduled to close nurses will be without jobs and a facility tailored to the needs of people in crisis will shut its doors.