GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Michigan initiative is being hailed as a model for behavioral health transports.

Launched in 2022, Life EMS Ambulance’s Behavioral Health Transport (BHT) program provides safe, clinically appropriate transportation for patients needing behavioral health care.

Since it started, the program has completed more than 7,000 transports, WWMT reported.

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“Our behavioral health transport program grew out of looking for a better solution, more respectful and safer way to move patients between inpatient, acute care hospitals, and behavioral health treatment facilities,” Life EMS Ambulance President Mark Meijer said.

The BHT program transfers hospital inpatients to behavioral health fac

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