New Hampshire Psychiatric Boarding In Emergency Departments Increased Between 2015 & 2017

New Hampshire’s daily emergency department psychiatric boarding rates more than doubled between 2015 and 2017. In April 2015, about 20 adults each day were boarded while waiting for admission to a psychiatric bed; in September 2017, about 70 adults per day were boarded. In 2017, the state had 458 inpatient psychiatric beds. However, the state’s community-based continuum of services generally lacks diversion services, and individuals in crisis are not able to access preventive or intensive services to prevent voluntary or involuntary inpatient admission.

These findings were included in “Final Report: Evaluation Of The Capacity Of The New . . .