“Every hour our crisis teams spend inside an emergency room is an hour they aren’t out in the community responding to someone who is having a mental health emergency in their home or on the street,” Hahn’s office said in a statement. “We have built up a strong alternative crisis response system, and now we need to make sure we are using those resources as effectively as possible.”
The pilot program will train physicians at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, UCI Health in Lakewood, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance and UCLA West Valley Medical Center.