A new telephone hotline launching this month may offer primary care providers an opportunity to get advice about child and adolescent patients who may have psychiatric symptoms.
The psychiatry department at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is staffing the hotline that is launching May 18th for physicians, physican assistants, and nurse practioners in west Texas as part of the Child Psychiatry Access Network in the state. The hotline will be available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
Sarah Martin, M.D., assistant professor in the department and chief of the school's child and adolescent division shared more about the hotline and discussed challenges young people with behavioral health issues may be dealing with during the COVID-19 pandemic.