psychiatric emergency room

The Alcohol Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County held a special meeting on Wednesday that determined the fate of the St. Vincent psychiatric emergency room.

While MetroHealth opens its new behavioral health center in Cleveland Heights this week, the fate of Cleveland’s only 24-hour psychiatric emergency room is still being debated. After Nov. 15—when St. Vincent Charity Medical Center’s psych ER is scheduled to close—nurses will be without jobs and a facility tailored to the needs of people in crisis will shut its doors.

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