totoro, I am so sorry. Thats how we ended up traveling to chicago, too. That is how it was local for us for years. Even when ER tried to page local docs, they did not reply, not even to the ER. Then our local agency psychiatrist quit and there was no replacement and they left all the patients hanging for 11 months. Surrounding counties here refused to take any of us in as patients.......it was a nitemare. After they got a new psychiatrist (after 11 moinths) that one saw all the kids once on the caseload, dramatically changed medications on many of those kids, (even on kids who were doing kind of ok) and many of the kids landed in psychiatric hospital..and that psychiatrist resigned after 3 months! The first month she was supposedly on family leave for a family emergency, but she never came back. Worse, at the same time the local psychiatric hospital also lost a bunch of staff and the kids being discharged had no discharge plans at all. There was no psychiatrist for follow up and no group for therapy etc. Thats when we made our jump to chicago doctor........
I hope someone calls you back.
