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The Philly region has few beds for behavioral health patients — and intense demand

A system already ripping at the seams is being pushed to a breaking point, experts say.

Heather Vince, BSN, RN, makes one of the beds in the newly expanded Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, as Main Line Health opened a new behavioral health unit at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Heather Vince, BSN, RN, makes one of the beds in the newly expanded Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, as Main Line Health opened a new behavioral health unit at Bryn Mawr Hospital.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer