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The fight over how people seeking to be released from in-patient mental health facilities in New Hampshire should get to address a judge is the latest flashpoint in a five-year long legal battle.

State health officials outlined in more detail how they plan to eliminate waitlists for inpatient mental health care, as they face a court-imposed deadline of May 2024.

State attorneys previously argued they would need up to two years to stop the practice, citing labor shortages and other challenges.

The competing proposals come in response to a federal judge’s ruling that New Hampshire must stop holding patients in mental health crises in ERs for prolonged periods.

Emergency room boarding is the longstanding state practice of housing mental health patients, sometimes for weeks, in hospital emergency rooms due to a lack of psychiatric treatment beds.

The state says workforce shortages are impeding its efforts to fix the issue.

Hampstead Hospital is one of the town's largest property tax payers, providing an estimated $175,000 annually to the town's budget.

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