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Study shows mentally ill still languishing in N.C. emergency rooms

8/6/10 News Observer—"People with mental illness are still languishing in North Carolina’s hospital emergency rooms for days, unable to get psychiatric treatment. A study released Friday by the Wake County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness found that, on average, patients who need admission to state psychiatric hospitals waited 2.6 days."

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Author(s)

Michael Biesecker

Date

08/06/10

State

North Carolina

Source

News Observer

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