The state of mental health care amid an effort to end ER boarding

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In 2023, the N.H, Department of Health and Human Services launched Mission Zero, promising to eliminate emergency department boarding — the practice of holding admitted patients in the ER while they wait for an inpatient bed to become available — by March of this year. Because …