EmPATH Units: Improving Hospital Behavioral Emergency Care

Scott Zeller, MD

Introduction:

Scott Zeller, MD, is Vituity’s Vice President for Acute Psychiatry. He also serves as an assistant professor at the University of California-Riverside School of Medicine, and previously served as Chief of Psychiatric Emergency Services at the Alameda Health System in Oakland, California. In his more than 30 years of practice, he has personally cared for over 80,000 patients.

Dr. Zeller is known around the world as a leading expert in psychiatric emergencies. He has authored multiple textbooks and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and lectures internationally as a keynote speaker. Additionally, he led the development of both U.S. and international guidelines on evaluation and treatment of agitation. He has published research on innovative designs for emergency mental healthcare, which he has also helped to implement in multiple centers.

Dr. Zeller graduated from Northwestern University Medical School and completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to his work with Vituity, Dr. Zeller is an Assistant Clinical Professor at both the University of California, Riverside and Touro University medical schools and is a past president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry.

The National Council awarded him the 2015 USA Doctor of the Year for Behavioral Health, and the 2019 California Hospital Association Heerman Award for making a landmark contribution to improving California healthcare, in 2020, Dr. Zeller was named on the “ten most influential people in healthcare design” by Healthcare Design Magazine.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the Six Goals of Emergency Psychiatric Care.
• Explain the limitations of crisis care provided outside the hospital setting and how hospital-level programs can mitigate these issues.
• Describe the core aspects of the EmPATH unit model of care.

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