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Mission 0 and New Hampshire Hospital: state says ED boarding has fallen; hospital outlines ongoing discharge bottlenecks
Summary
DHHS officials and New Hampshire Hospital leaders reported progress on Mission 0 to reduce emergency-department (ED) boarding of behavioral-health patients, but hospital officials said a subset of inpatients remain in facility beds longer than clinically necessary because of shortages in lower-level community placements.
Department leaders described Mission 0 as a targeted, multi-partner effort to reduce ED boarding for behavioral-health patients. "We created Mission 0 which basically was a concerted effort to reduce that number," Commissioner Lori Weaver said, adding the initiative focuses on both front-door processes and on whether patients leaving care have stable placements.
Ian Watt, director of the Division of Public Health Services, and other DHHS speakers described coordination with hospitals and community providers to reduce ED wait times.…
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