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The solution is to increase the Omaha area’s mental health assessment and treatment facilities to help these residents. This is one of our area’s longstanding, daunting challenges.
So, Nebraska Medicine deserves congratulations for taking a major step to help meet the need. This fall, it will open a psychiatric emergency center to help alleviate the pressure on hospital emergency rooms and law enforcement agencies. Thanks to its assessment and treatment capabilities, the center is expected to help keep some adult patients out of local inpatient psychiatric beds in the community.
Nebraska Medicine’s emergency room provides an example. From 2015-19, it experienced a nearly 80% increase in visits from patients with a psychiatric or substance abuse problem, The World-Herald’s Julie Anderson reports. That amounted to more than 3,000 such visits last year.
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When Adrian Pospisil learned that COVID-19 vaccinations would soon be coming to his nursing home, he immediately jumped to the front of the line.
âPut me on the list,â the 73-year-old resident of the Douglas County Health Center told one of his caregivers. âIâll be the first.â
The retired machinist said heâs more than ready to be freed from the deadly virus that has kept him largely confined to his room.
No movies or other group activities.
No Sunday worship or Wednesday rosary service.
No visits from his brother or outings to Pospisilâs favorite dining spots â Arbyâs and the diner at Hy-Vee supermarket.
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