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RIVERSIDE COUNTY EMERGENCY TREATMENT SERVICES FAILING
PATIENTS AND DOCTORS
by
Jessica Roberts
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PRINT JOURNALISM)
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Jessica Roberts
Object Description
| Title | Riverside County Emergency Treatment Services failing patients and doctors |
| Author | Roberts, Jessica |
| Author email | jessyrob@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Journalism (Print Journalism) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-04-02 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 11 April 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-04-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Cray, Ed |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Melnick, Glenn Kotler, Jonathan |
| Abstract | Riverside County's Emergency Treatment Services is one of only a few psychiatric emergency rooms in the state, but the facility has not been able to keep up with the fast-growing population in the county. Seventeen years after it first opened, doctors and other staff complain that conditions for patients are intolerable.; Overcrowding in the emergency room forces doctors to interview patients in group areas, compromising patient confidentiality, and patients to sleep on the floor because there are not enough beds or chairs. Doctors are also concerned about their own fatigue, as the administration no longer allows psychiatrists on overnight shifts to sleep when there are no patients to be seen. These concerns have prompted the administration to plan expansions to the physical space of the facility, but the timeline for those improvements is in question. |
| Keyword | mental health |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m377 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Roberts, Jessica |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Roberts-20070411 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume35/etd-Roberts-20070411.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | RIVERSIDE COUNTY EMERGENCY TREATMENT SERVICES FAILING PATIENTS AND DOCTORS by Jessica Roberts A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PRINT JOURNALISM) May 2007 Copyright 2007 Jessica Roberts |
