• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

  • Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
Donate
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español

Read all of our joint coverage with The Charlotte Ledger here. 

Tag: Psychiatric beds

The image shows a hospital staff worker using a computer in a patient waiting area. At times, mental health patients in crisis can wait in emergency rooms under involuntary commitment for days or weeks for an available psychiatric bed.
Posted inMental Health

What happens when you take someone in a mental health crisis to the E.R.?

by Taylor Knopf September 8, 2023September 7, 2023

Editor’s note: This article references self harm and suicide. Please use caution when reading. There are several mental health support resources listed at the end of this article. By Taylor Knopf When a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, families often go to their local emergency room for help. This can set off […]

A young white girl with blonde hair covering her face sits at a table on a screened in porch drawing, which is part of mental health therapy homework
Posted inMental Health

Durham 11-year-old was sexually assaulted in NC psychiatric hospital, parents allege

by Taylor Knopf November 30, 2022November 30, 2022
many stick figure people in front of a real hospital emergency patient registration sign, they represent all the people in mental health crisis who sit in the emergency department waiting for a psychiatric bed
Posted inMental Health

New mental health data show ‘unsustainable’ burden on NC hospitals

by Taylor Knopf August 22, 2022August 22, 2022
shows a man in a suit standing at a podium gesturing with his hands. On the front of the podium is the NC state seal. Behind him are a bank of state and US flags
Posted inMental Health

State budget funds some mental health crisis response and hospital diversion efforts

by Taylor Knopf November 18, 2021November 29, 2021
photo is a close up of hands cuffed behind someone's back
Posted inMental Health

NC didn’t track the data on mental health commitments, so some advocates did it instead.

by Taylor Knopf December 21, 2020November 15, 2022
shows map of NC with counties that have psychiatrists noted in green, a handful of counties are grey (no psychiatrist) and a smaller number are colored darker green (more psychiatrists)
Posted inRural Health

Eastern NC mental health unit slated for closure

by Liora Engel-Smith July 22, 2019July 22, 2019

Subscribe to our Newsletter

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

Suicide rates of teenage boys are skyrocketing because of firearm access

Suicide rates of teenage boys are skyrocketing because of firearm access

September 30, 2023September 29, 2023
What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?

What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?

September 29, 2023September 29, 2023
High Point University closer to welcoming students to the only private dental school in North Carolina

High Point University closer to welcoming students to the only private dental school in North Carolina

September 28, 2023September 27, 2023

North Carolina Health News
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2023 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic