To try to clarify this rant,

This is about preventing emergency departments in any hospital in NH from holding patients for an extended time (not sure what timeframe this is, guessing >24 hrs?) in the ED for psych issues which in this case primarily would relate to issues of suicide risk. Ideally such patients would transfer to an inpatient psych unit for appropriate treatment that they can’t receive in an emergency department setting. Unfortunately there are not enough inpatient psych units or beds in those units for the need. Patients in the ED where a physician is concerned about suicide risk may be held in the ED and not allowed to leave because the physician is responsible if they leave the ED and immediately harm themselves or someone else.

As someone in medicine, I don’t think there is an easy answer to this problem and this law may help or may make things worse but if the president of the NH Hospital Association is supporting it, I’d be wary of it. Hospital associations around the country are worried about maximizing profits, not much else.

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