We are in the midst of a mental health crisis that impacts our patients, our hospitals, the health care system, and our daily work in the emergency department. It is easy to be caught up in own experience, or the problems of our own department. But when we look beyond our hospital, we see that this is a huge crisis at county, state, and national levels. To help us understand why we are in this situation, and how we can work to improve things, we spoke with UC Davis’ Director of Emergency Psychiatry, Dr. Lorin Scher, and Emergency Physician and ED Director of Behavioral Health, Dr. Aimee Moulin. Here of some of their suggestions:

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***Registration is still open for UC Davis Emergency Medicine Update: Hot topics 2019!

November 5-9 at the Kahala Hotel and Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii***

***Save the date for the 43rd annual UC Davis Emergency Medicine Winter Conference, February 24th-29th at the Ritz Carlton in Lake Tahoe***

Hosts:

Dr. Julia Magaña, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UC Davis

Dr. Sarah Medeiros, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis

Guests:

Dr. Lorin Scher, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Emergency Psychiatry at UC Davis, and Director of Integrated Behavioral Health Services in the UC Davis primary care network

Dr. Aimee Moulin, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and ED Behavioral Health Director at UC Davis

Resources:

Sacramento has a mental health crisis. Let’s switch from ‘emergency’ to strategy. 

By Dr. Lorin Scher, Special to The Sacramento Bee, May 5, 2019

California 5150 Law

ACEP Mental Health Advocacy

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Thank you to the UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine for supporting this podcast and to Orlando Magaña and Isaiah Magaña at OM Audio Productions for audio production services.