Emergency room backup
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South Carolina is experiencing a crisis in its emergency rooms. According to Charleston's
Post and Courier, to address the problem attributed to a decline in long-term beds, the Mental Health Department
set aside roughly $5 million toward that effort by opening 10 beds at a crisis unit in Charleston and offering a mobile crisis unit for the area. Also, the agency is providing short-term emergency housing for homeless patients and buying medicine for them to stockpile between visits.
