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No Vacancy: How a Shortage of Mental Health Beds Keeps Kids Trapped Inside ERs

Jun 28, 2021 One evening in late March, a mom called 911. Her daughter, she said, was threatening to kill herself. EMTs arrived at the home north of Boston, helped calm the 13-year-old, and took her to an emergency room. Melinda, like a growing number of children during the covid-19 pandemic, had become increasingly anxious and depressed as she spent more time away from in-person contact at school, church and her singing lessons. KHN and NPR have agreed to use only the first names of this teenager and her mother, Pam, to avoid having this story trail the family online. Right now in Massachusetts and in many parts of the U.S. and the world, demand for mental health care overwhelms supply, creating bottlenecks like Melinda’s 17-day saga.

How a Shortage of Mental Health Beds Keeps Kids Inside ERs

How a Shortage of Mental Health Beds Keeps Kids Inside ERs
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