UNCH 2016-2017 Nursing Annual Report - 7

STAFF PROFILES
STAFF AWARDS
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2016-2017 FISCAL YEAR NURSING ANNUAL REPORT | 7

MOVING FORWARD

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MAGNET STORIES

State psychiatric bed closure and a reduction of state
and federal funds to support mental health treatments
have left many chronic and severe mentally ill patients
without the assistance and resources needed to
manage their own care and medication regimens.
The result is that these patients are streaming into
local emergency rooms seeking care and assistance,
producing a mental health care crisis. UNC Hospitals
Emergency Department and Psychiatry Services leaders
are rising to the challenge to meet these patients'
needs through cross-training emergency and psychiatry
staff and redesigning space to make care delivery
more efficient. They are also working with state and
national leaders through professional organizations and
coalitions to address these issues and better patient
access to treatment in therapeutic environments.

LETTER

PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS-
MANAGING THROUGHPUT
IN TOUGH TIMES.



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