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Psychiatric Services, VOL. 24, No. 7

Article | July 01, 1973

An Acute Treatment Unit in a Psychiatric Emergency Service

RICHARD L. PEARLMAN; MURRAY HECHT; SHELDON BLACKMAN; RICHARD M. SILBERSTEIN

Psychiatric Services 1973; doi:

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North Richmond Community Mental Health Center, Staten Island, New York

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As part of its emergency services, a community mental health center established a three-bed acute treatment unit to which patients may be admitted for up to 24 hours. The unit, which serves patients from other divisions of the mental health center as well as those who come directly from the community, has played an important part in preventing prolonged hospitalization of many people in crisis.

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