‘Thank God they’re nonetheless alive’: Kaiser therapists declare its new screening system places sufferers at greater danger by delaying their care | Expertise

Ilana Marcucci-Morris is frightened in regards to the sufferers she treats and the way lengthy it took for them to reach in her workplace. At Kaiser Permanente’s psychiatry outpatient clinic in Oakland, California, she says she more and more finds herself assessing folks experiencing extreme psychological well being points whom she believes ought to have been despatched to the emergency room weeks earlier. For individuals who do make it to their appointments, she thinks: “Thank God they’re nonetheless alive.”