The Right Place at the Right Time - Transporting Directly to Inpatient Mental Health

Thursday, October 13, 2022

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

Location: 330

Sponsored By

Co-Speaker(s)

Casey B. Patrick, MD, FAEMS

EMS Medical Director
Harris County ESD11 Mobile Healthcare/MCHD EMS
Conroe, Texas
Xavier A. De La Rosa, MBA, NREMT-P

Chief Clinical Officer
Harris County ESD 11 Mobile Healthcare
Spring, Texas

Description: Anyone and everyone who has ever cared for patients with mental health related complaints in the prehospital setting knows that not all need standard hospital emergency department transport. Harris County ESD11 Mobile Healthcare has finally bridged the gap facilitating direct 911 transport from the scene to an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Join the ESD11 clinical leadership as they discuss how the partnership was forged, what criteria the paramedics use to determine direct to mental health patient selection and, most importantly, what their patient and operational data has shown.

Learning Objectives:

Learn the important exclusionary criteria for direct to inpatient psychiatric hospital transports
Understand the important communication factors involved in building a bridge from EMS to local psychiatric facilities.
List operational and clinical benefits to direct to inpatient psychiatric hospital EMS transports.