Anika Nayak is a freelance journalist focused on health equity. She is a recipient of the Solutions Journalism Network’s HEAL Fellowship and the Journalism and Women Symposium’s Health Journalism Fellowship. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Emergency departments across the U.S. have seen a sharp rise in pediatric mental health visits over the past five years — more than 45% nationally, and nearly 300% at Cleveland Clinic’s pediatric emergency rooms for patients under 21.
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