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Author: Madeline Ashley

Lubbock-based Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has partnered with Round Rock-based Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, a nonprofit that addresses rural community hospital needs, to form a telepsychiatry initiative in emergency rooms.

Grand Junction, Colo.-based West Springs Hospital, a psychiatric facility part of Mind Springs Health, is facing possible closure due to persistent challenges like labor costs, staffing shortages, regulatory scrutiny, financial constraints, and compliance activity cost.

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