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  • Shaping the Debate: Focusing on Critical Illinois Health Care Issues (May 2011)
    This issue looks at the state's deteriorating behavioral health system and the challenges that Illinois hospitals face as they encounter a steadily increasing number of persons in their emergency departments, medical beds and specialty facilities. Click here to read press release.

  • Best Practices for the Treatment of Patients with Mental and Substance Use Illness in the Emergency Department


    The IHA Behavioral Health Steering Committee established a Task Force to consider and document best practices associated with treatment of the patient with mental and substance use illnesses in the emergency department. This multidisciplinary committee of psychiatrists, emergency medicine physicians, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors and hospital management executives met on several occasions during 2006 and 2007. It considers emergency departments in a variety of hospital settings, from the large urban academic medical center to the small rural hospital. It also considers EDs with dedicated psychiatric space and staff as well as those that do not have these resources. It is the Task Force's goal to provide this information for hospitals in Illinois to use as a resource.
    View full report (pdf).