Emergency rooms across New Hampshire

Designated Receiving Facility: its adult inpatient psychiatric unit (5 West) provides 24/7 emergency behavioral-health assessment and accepts both voluntary and involuntary admissions, so it can hold and treat a psychiatric emergency on site.

Designated Receiving Facility: operates a small inpatient psychiatric unit accepting voluntary and involuntary admissions. Named among NH's designated receiving facilities by the Disability Rights Center–NH.

Designated Receiving Facility: under a 2023 state contract, DHMC added adult involuntary psychiatric beds within its inpatient psychiatry unit — the Upper Valley's first ER able to hold and treat an involuntary psychiatric patient on site.

Designated Receiving Facility: its adult acute behavioral-health unit cares for voluntary and involuntary patients, and it is state-certified to take involuntary emergency admissions — one of the state's largest psychiatric receiving hospitals.

Designated Receiving Facility: its behavioral-health unit offers inpatient admission including involuntary emergency admission, so it can hold and treat a psychiatric emergency on site. Serves as the region's involuntary receiving hospital.

Has an on-site psychiatric inpatient unit (“Ray of Hope”) — but it is VOLUNTARY and for older adults (65+) by physician referral, not an involuntary receiving facility. An acute involuntary emergency in the ER is still stabilized and transferred.

Has an on-site psychiatric inpatient unit (“Generations”) — but it is GERIATRIC-ONLY (older adults) by referral, not a general-adult or involuntary receiving facility. An adult psychiatric emergency in the ER is stabilized and transferred.

Accepts both voluntary and involuntary behavioral-health intakes at its 14-bed adult inpatient unit — it medically stabilizes the patient, then transfers involuntary and acute cases to its partner receiving facility, Portsmouth Regional Hospital. An intake-and-stabilize point rather than a full on-site involuntary receiving facility.

Has an inpatient Senior (geriatric) Behavioral Health Unit; the ER handles psychiatric crises with support from Greater Nashua Mental Health. No confirmed adult involuntary receiving beds — general adult involuntary cases are stabilized and transferred.

Has an 18-bed adult inpatient behavioral-health unit — but its own materials describe it as VOLUNTARY admissions only, so it is not a designated receiving facility for involuntary holds. Its 24/7 ACCESS service provides crisis evaluation; involuntary cases are stabilized in the ED and transferred.

Critical-access ER that medically stabilizes and begins a crisis evaluation. No inpatient psychiatric unit found; psychiatric admissions route to nearby DHMC. Capability not confirmed on a hospital page — call ahead.

Critical-access ER offering 24/7 emergency care; stabilizes and transfers higher-acuity cases to a tertiary center. No inpatient psychiatric unit found — call ahead.

The ER provides urgent psychiatric assessment and stabilization. CMC recently closed its inpatient psychiatric unit and is winding down outpatient behavioral health, so psychiatric admissions are stabilized and transferred; it is not a designated receiving facility.

Stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation, with emergency and outpatient psychiatry. Its inpatient behavioral-health unit closed around 2016 (staffing), so it is not a psychiatric receiving facility — verify current status.

Nashua's first freestanding ER — full-service emergency care with a trauma bay, CT, and lab. Like any ER it can medically stabilize a person and start a crisis evaluation, then transfer. No on-site psychiatric beds; not a designated receiving facility.

Newly opened July 13, 2026. Behavioral-health handling inferred from general ER capability — no psychiatric-specific detail published yet.

The Lakes Region's ER; stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation. Verified behavioral health here is outpatient plus a 24/7 mobile crisis team; an on-site inpatient psychiatric / receiving-facility unit could not be confirmed — call ahead.

Stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation, with Seacoast Mental Health crisis clinicians available on site. No inpatient psychiatric unit; psychiatric admissions transfer out.

Critical-access ER offering emergency and outpatient psychiatry; stabilizes and refers. No inpatient psychiatric beds or involuntary-hold capability found — call ahead.

Stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation. Behavioral health is an outpatient primary-care–integrated service; no inpatient psychiatric beds or involuntary-hold capability.

Critical-access ER that stabilizes and begins a crisis evaluation. Behavioral health is delivered by a psychiatric NP and clinician embedded in primary care — outpatient; no inpatient psychiatric beds.

Critical-access ER that stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation, supported by Dartmouth Health telepsychiatry. No inpatient psychiatric beds — call ahead.

Critical-access ER that stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation. Behavioral health here is outpatient, integrated with primary care; no inpatient psychiatric or involuntary-hold capability found.

Critical-access ER that stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation. No inpatient psychiatric unit or involuntary-hold capability found — call ahead.

The northernmost critical-access ER in the state; stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation. Behavioral health is outpatient; no inpatient psychiatric beds found — call ahead.

The only 24/7 ER in Sullivan County. Stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation; behavioral health is a separate outpatient department. No inpatient psychiatric beds.

Critical-access ER that stabilizes and starts a crisis evaluation. Behavioral health presents as outpatient/community-based; no inpatient psychiatric beds found — call ahead.

24-hour ER that performs behavioral-health assessments and starts a crisis evaluation. No dedicated inpatient psychiatric unit found; psychiatric admissions transfer out.