AOT Orders A Useful Tool During COVID Pandemic
By EsqSocial Corporation 06/01/21
The pandemic has prompted the reallocation of hospital beds from psychiatric care to treatment of COVID patients. This has occurred as mental illness has been on the rise. To cope with the insufficient number of psychiatric beds, it is important for hospitals to curtail readmissions. An often-underutilized tool to do so is the assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) order......
By: Rivkin Radler LLP