In 2024, 6,758 patients were placed into a mental health bed within the community through the Franklin County Psychiatric Bedboard with an average length of stay of 5.6 hours.
That’s down from 7,119 patients in 2023 with an average length of stay of 6.1 hours.
That’s down from 5.0 hours in July 2023 and 8.8 hours in July 2022, and is the shortest length of stay since the inception of the Bedboard in 2009.
