APA Releases Guidance on Admittance, Discharge of Psychiatric Patients During COVID-19

The APA Board of Trustees has issued guidance on how hospitals should manage patients in psychiatric inpatient settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance was developed “in response to efforts to either deny admittance to or prematurely release psychiatric patients under the guise of avoiding COVID-19 infection,” according to an APA press release.“It is simply irresponsible to prematurely release patients with serious mental illness from psychiatric inpatient settings into communities[…]