Five U.S. Hospitals Run Inpatient Perinatal Psychiatric Units, Leaving Most of the Country Without One

The Country Has Five Specialty Inpatient Programs

A parent who develops severe psychiatric illness during pregnancy or the year after birth can be diagnosed quickly in almost any American emergency department. Getting that parent into a bed staffed by people trained in perinatal psychiatry is a different problem, and in most of the country it is not solvable.