Pediatric mental health urgent care centers offer alternatives to costly and lengthy emergency department visits.
At age 17, struggling with paralyzing depression after losing her brother to suicide and her father to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, her teacher suggested she seek help.
Opladen made it through that dark period, and 5 years later, she is a registered nurse at the same hospital. Every day she walks past a new facility she wishes had existed during her troubled teenage years: An urgent care center for children and adolescents experiencing mental health crises. "It's really not urgent behavioral health. It's really just another access point to get behavioral health," Mathison said."Crises in pediatrics are so much more complex" than physical injuries or acute infections, which are the bread and butter of urgent care centers.
Instead, Brighter Days and other centers provide crisis de-escalation for individuals experiencing an exacerbation of a diagnosed mental illness, such a manic episode from bipolar disorder. Opladen said the urgent care center represents a significant improvement over her experience at the emergency department's psychiatric triage.
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