Factors Associated With Admission to Public and Private Hospitals From a Psychiatric Emergency Screening Site

factors associated with admission to public and private hospitals from a mental health care emer-gency screening system operating under a longstanding mandate to maximize use ofprivate inpatient treatment. Methods: For 206 pa-tients evaluated at the mental health emergency screening site over a two-and-a-half-month pe-dod; data ut collected on demo-graphic and clinical character-istics, admission history, services received during the emergency en-counter, system variables such as time thepatient spent at the emer-gency screening site, number of ad-mission sites askedto accept the pa-tient, and all reasons cited by providersfor refusing to admit the All ofthe authors except Dr. Bate-man are affiliated with the de-partment ofpsychiatry at the Urn