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A psychiatric ED can relieve the overcrowding pressure in the main ED, but it doesn't guarantee a solution to the boarding problem, says Steve Sterner, MD, chief clinical officer and an emergency physician at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, and chair of a joint American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)/Minnesota Medical Association task force evaluating psychiatric bed availability and the boarding of psychiatric patients.

'Psych ED' relieves main department