Most of the kids sitting in ERs for “behavioral health crises” never needed to be there.
Christine Beck explained on our recent podcast episode how crisis diversion programs flipped that script by sending support to families before a hospital admission was ever necessary.
The outcome is something to pay close attention to:
Kids stabilized at home, families kept together, and hospitalizations avoided.
For anyone designing Medicaid behavioral health, this is the kind of upstream intervention that saves money and saves families.