Staff Warned About the Lack of Psychiatric Care at a VA Clinic. They Couldn’t Prevent Tragedy.
Two veterans sought psychiatric care at a VA clinic in Chico, California. They were bounced between virtual providers and struggled to get support in the threadbare system. A staffer worried, “We are going to kill someone.” Then tragedy struck.
We tells kids to reach out if they’re struggling. But what if there’s no help available?
OPINION: In health care, there literally is not one area that could not use more money. But the issue of mental-health care for children strikes me as particularly important.