L.A. County’s Psychiatric Urgent Clinics Seek to Curb Long Waits for Patients and Police Officers
A small crowd was already waiting in the psychiatric emergency department at the L.A. County-USC Medical Center when Los Angeles police Det. Jim Hoffman arrived early on a Saturday morning in March. Sitting in a narrow hallway just outside the locked psychiatric unit, two police officers from LAPD’s Central Division waited with a man and … Read moreL.A. County’s Psychiatric Urgent Clinics Seek to Curb Long Waits for Patients and Police Officers
