Health Care After the Asylum: How America’s Trying to Fix Its Broken Mental Health System December 15, 2015 Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby Patients with mental illness are being detained in emergency rooms, often for weeks at a time. Now some states are rethinking the entire psychiatric care system. BY J.B. WOGAN | DECEMBER 2015 http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-mental-health-boarding.html