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The recent fining of Behavioral Hospital of Lutcher (LA) for allegedly failing to appropriately accept transfers of two patients suffering psychiatric emergencies may have offered a bit of consolation to ED managers who are increasingly frustrated by their inability to successfully transfer such patients, but it was also a sober reminder of the severity of the problem.

Preplanning can ease psychiatric transfers