Campus Safety’s Best Hospital Quotes

“Emergency rooms are for people with heart attacks and gunshot wounds, and it is just a disgrace that mentally ill people can be held there two, three, five days, eating ham sandwiches in total chaos.”

– H. Reed Cosper (bottom left), Rhode Island’s mental health advocate, on the lengthy times behavioral health patients must wait in the ER before they receive treatment. Often, security officers are tasked with monitoring these patients.
Source: NPR (June 2011)