Let's get kids in mental health crisis out of hospital emergency departments • Minnesota Reformer

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Let's get kids in mental health crisis out of hospital emergency departments • Minnesota Reformer

Not where kids in crisis belong. Photo by Getty Images. Children suffering from behavioral health crisis are collectively spending hundreds to thousands of hours boarding in hospital emergency departments. A bill (HR4779) sponsored by Rep. Kim Hicks, DFL-Rochester, would allow Medical Assistance — the Minnesota version of Medicaid, a public health insurance program for people with disabilities and the indigent — to be used for children to get t…