Unit on the hospital’s La Crosse campus is the first of its kind in Wisconsin
LA CROSSE – Behavioral health care is a special kind of care, Heather Schimmers, president of Emplify Health by Gundersen, said, and it deserves to be delivered in a special place.
The EmPATH unit under construction on Emplify Health by Gundersen’s La Crosse campus, she said, is a forward-thinking example of that.
EmPATH – an acronym for “emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment and healing” – Schimmers said, is an alternative way to treat patients who present in a hospital emergency room (ER) while in a mental health crisis.
Though EmPATH units exist worldwide, she said the unit being established within the behavioral health department on the hospital’s La Crosse campus is the first of its kind in Wisconsin...
The EmPATH unit under construction on Emplify Health by Gundersen’s La Crosse campus, she said, is a forward-thinking example of that.
EmPATH – an acronym for “emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment and healing” – Schimmers said, is an alternative way to treat patients who present in a hospital emergency room (ER) while in a mental health crisis.
Though EmPATH units exist worldwide, she said the unit being established within the behavioral health department on the hospital’s La Crosse campus is the first of its kind in Wisconsin...
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