Feb 14 2022 43 mins
It’s no secret that the mental health needs of youth have been intensifying. Getting young people the treatment they need in a crisis has become a greater challenge because of the length of time they must spend in the emergency room (often more than 12 hours) waiting for risk assessments and acute follow up care.
In this episode, Chris Leonard talks with Shana Palmieri, the co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of XFERALL, an innovative mobile technology platform that can help schools (and healthcare and community professionals) get faster access to best-fit acute care, as well as other treatment resources, for young people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Highlights include:
- The devastating outcomes that happen with delayed and denied access to acute mental health care.
- How schools can use XFERALL to quickly find access to inpatient care for students, with the chance to avoid the emergency department and associated costs.
- How the system takes the burden off school professionals to judge a student’s risk level.
- Additional proactive interventions schools can put in place to reduce the incidents of mental health crises among students and prevent the worst outcomes.