The Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies (COPE) is a collaborative working group of behavioral health, psychiatry, and emergency medicine professionals headed by the Emergency Medicine Foundation. COPE represents thirteen professional organizations, making it the largest collaborative in the field of emergency psychiatry in the United States. COPE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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History
According to COPE's website, the coalition came out of a "psychiatric emergency summit" in December 2014.
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Activities
COPE hosted its "1st Annual Research Consensus Conference on Acute Mental Illness" on December 7-9, 2016 in Las Vegas, NV.
Formation
The coalition's member organizations represent multiple healthcare disciplines, including emergency physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other stakeholders. COPE is composed of the following member organizations:
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine
- American Association for Emergency Psychiatry
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians
- American Psychiatric Nurses Association
- American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
- College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
- Emergency Nurse Association
- Hospital Corporation of America
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Council on Behavioral Health
- New Directions Behavioral Health
COPE supporters (but not representative members) include Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Alexza Pharmaceuticals.
Reception
The formation of COPE has been widely reported in the medical media.
Praise
Scott Zeller, MD, Chief of Psychiatric Emergency Services for the Alameda Health System, has described the collaborative as "unprecedented." Peggy DeCarlis, chief operating and innovation officer of New Directions Behavioral Health, has expressed "excitement" towards her organization's partnership with COPE.
Criticism
David W. Covington, LPC, MBA, CEO and president of RI International, an international provider of recovery services, has suggested that the "reinforcements" that COPE will bring to American emergency departments are not enough to combat the problems that emergency departments face in dealing with acute psychiatric emergencies.
References
External links
- Official website
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