The Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services (ADAMHS) Board of Cuyahoga County voted today to provide $4.4 million to keep the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center psychiatric emergency department open in 2023, Cleveland.com reports.
Without the funding, St. Vincent’s psychiatric emergency department– the only emergency department specifically for patients having mental health crises in Cuyahoga County — would have closed in November, when the hospital ends inpatient, surgical and emergency room care.
MetroHealth System also announced plans to add a psychiatric emergency department to its recently opened $42 million, 112-bed MetroHealth Cleveland Heights Behavioral Health Hospital. Read more.
