This is Emergency Services as its Defined on a Community Services Boards' Web Site

Emergency Services/Crisis Counseling is a State mandated program. This unit provides short-term crisis counseling and referrals to individuals on an emergency basis. Emergency and crisis response services include: telephone interventions; face-to-face assessments and evaluation (including pre-admission screening); psychiatric consultation and other clinical consultation about mental health, substance abuse, and special populations which include children, adolescents, geriatric, people with mental retardation, and individuals involved in the forensic system. Emergency Services/Crisis Counseling is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Everything on this website has been thoroughly examined, reviewed, evaluated, and ultimately approved by The Citizens’ Committee for the Advancement of Rational Thought and Actions in Virginia's Mental Health System….


Things Sure Aren't What They Used to be..Conditions Sure Have Changed

coming soon........

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

How Does a Hospital Accept a Person Who is Being Detained?

Good question. As with anyone who is going to be inpatient in a hospital there must be an accepting physician. This is a doctor who is willing to accept the responsibility for the patient and to call treatment orders to the nursing staff.
How does the doctor decide whether or not he wants to assume this responsibility?
Though there may be some variations, the normal procedure is for the evaluator to call the hospital and describe the case to one of the staff: could be a nurse or a counselor. That person in turn calls the doctor and presents the information. The doctor can refuse, accept, or ask for more tests or information. For example, let's say there's a history of heart disease or diabetes, the doctor may request at a minimum blood sugar and vitals. The doctor may ask for anything they want (more on this later).
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