While You Are Sleeping: McNabb Center’s night shift at EmPATH Unit offers help for those in crisis 24/7

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The McNabb Center opened Tennessee’s first Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing (EmPATH) Unit last year to provide around-the-clock mental health care for people in crisis.

When the sun sets and most of Knoxville is asleep, staff members like Nichole Skinner are just beginning their shift.

“It is a completely different world,” Skinner said about the overnight shift…

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