84-year-old Deephaven painter Keith Wilcock wants to spread a jolt of joy with art collection Works from former Wilcock Gallery in Excelsior are for sale online. July 13, 2021 10:08am Text size Copy shortlink:
Bedridden for a year with rheumatic fever during the second grade, Keith Wilcock spent hours upon hours drawing scenes of planes crashing.
His technique grew, and once he returned to school, he made his first painting for its art contest: a pirate ship.
Wilcock s teacher teased him for coloring the boat s sails purple, but his work still took the prize. It was far better than anybody else s, I must admit, says Wilcock, 84, chuckling amid dozens of acrylic and watercolor scenes on the walls of his Deephaven home. And so I ve been drawing and painting ever since.
COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the shortages of mental health resources, especially for children and adolescents, but problems of accessing care have been increasing for years.
A new study, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, found children who visited emergency departments for mental health crises in 2015 were more likely to experience prolonged wait times for care than they were in the previous decade.
Researchers analyzed the length of stay for 36,215 patients ages 6 to 17 visiting a pediatric emergency department between 2005 and 2015 using the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Researchers categorized visits into wait-time increments â more than six hours, more than 12 hours, or more than 24 hours. The length of stay for mental health visits were then compared with non-mental health ED visits.
Child waiting times for mental health care in ER up 8 percent
Over the last 11 years, children seeking mental health care at the ER who waited more than six hours rose from 16.3 percent to 24.6 percent. By iStock
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A new study examining how long children wait for mental health care in the ER was published in the medical journal Pediatrics.
Only 16 percent of children who visited emergency rooms for mental health care actually saw a mental health provider.
Hispanic children are close to three times more likely than white children to experience a delay in care.
A new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics found that children are waiting 8 percent longer in emergency departments to receive mental health care.