Millions of people each year have a mental health crisis.
News 3 brought you some of their stories . Now we’re learning more about one facility on the peninsula that’s meant to help.
A psychiatric emergency department opened on Riverside Health System’s behavioral health campus in Hampton nearly a year ago. It’s a place where those experiencing mental crises can get emergency care.
So how has the past year gone?
At the opening last October, law enforcement said they see someone in crisis multiple times a day. They hoped the facility would give people a place to get emergency mental health care more quickly than if someone’s taken to a traditional emergency department.
“While that individual is sitting in the emergency room, they’re not getting treated for what they’re there for, they’re waiting for pre-clearance,” Newport New Sheriff Gabe Morgan told News 3 last October.
Hospital president at Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center Stacey Johnson said in the past year, things have gone well at the facility.