Becker's Healthcare January 30, 2025
A recent study appears to show that the July 2022 launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has not broadened the availability of crisis services at mental health facilities in the U.S.
The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, analyzed trends in services from November 2021 through June 2023 and suggested that, while the number of facilities offering peer support services increased, other key crisis services such as mobile crisis response and psychiatric walk-in-services have decreased or remained stagnant.
The study examined data from 15,623 licensed mental health treatment facilities and...
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