New Hampshire, Hospitals Resolve Lawsuit Over Holding Psychiatric Patients in Emergency Rooms

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire hospitals and state health officials said Wednesday they will work together to solve the state’s long-standing problem of holding psychiatric patients in hospital emergency rooms, a move that ends years of litigation. A federal judge who had declared the practice unconstitutional in February followed up in May with an order giving the state one year to develop a system under which people would be held for no more than six hours before being transferred to another facility for treatment. On Wednesday, the Department of...