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MENTAL HEALTH

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Beds

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society supports development of public child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric beds and facilities necessary to ensure adequate and sufficient services are available in the community; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society opposes the use of hospital emergency rooms as a substitute for adequate mental health treatment facilities.

(Substitute Resolution 19-2003, adopted 11/16/03)
(revised, Report R-2007, Item 3-30, adopted 10/21/2007)
(reafffirmed, Report F-2012, Item 3-44, adopted 10/27/2012)
(reaffirmed, Board Report-2018, Item 61, adopted 11/3/2018)