Psych wards are needed.
That's the big problem. Apparently some years ago they closed a bunch of psych hospitals so there is no place for these people to go. I work in an ER, psych patients come in, we have to house them until we find a bed, go through an entire battery of tests, it takes up an emergency room (small hospital we have very few ER beds available), someone has to watch them constantly and document their behavior every 15 minutes, sometimes it takes 24 hours to find a bed and sometimes they have to be shipped clear across state by ambulance therefore taking up EMT time as well. Sometimes there are no beds available period and they eventually say the person is okay, promises not to hurt themselves or others and so they have to let them go. It's a bad situation.