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Committee backs resolution urging health-care settings to include 988 crisis hotline messaging
Summary
The Committee on Public and Community Health unanimously approved House Resolution 713, a nonbinding measure asking health-care providers and patient-hold messages to include information about the 988 mental-health crisis line to help direct people in crisis to appropriate services.
The Committee on Public and Community Health voted to approve House Resolution 713, a nonbinding resolution encouraging health-care providers to include language directing people in mental-health crises to call 988. Representative Wade introduced the measure as an "encouragement, not a mandate," saying it supplements existing 911 messaging in medical offices and helps callers distinguish…
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