Access to Behavioral Health
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed guidance on ligature risk.
Integrating behavioral health care into primary care is improves care and decreases costs, but restricted access to behavioral health providers makes integration seem daunting. Atrium Health has tackled this issue and developed a truly integrated and financially sustainable model.
Behavioral health disorders have significant impact on individual and community health, utilization of services and costs. Hospitals and health systems are shifting their focus to treating the whole patient and creating a continuum of care that reflects integration at each point in a patient’s…
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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on 12 health care bills, including one that would impact the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program.
Newsletter highlighting AHA resources, advocacy updates, and more regarding behavioral health.
May 2019 Behavioral Health Update
When the Sisters of St. Joseph were founded in 1650, Fr. Medaille asked the original Sisters to go into their neighborhoods, identify the needs of the poor and work with partners to meet them. Over the past two decades, St. Jude Medical Center has carried on this heritage by helping to start and…
(Podcast) Shelly Rivello, director of integrated care at J.C. Blair Health System in Huntington, Pa., and Carrie Henning-Smith, assistant professor and deputy director of the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health Research Center in Minneapolis, discuss innovative models and evidence-based…
We also hope you'll join us on the AHA and the National Council for Behavioral Health on Wednesday, June 12 at 3:30 p.m. ET for a virtual workshop on: Expanding Access to Behavioral Health through Collaboration: Lessons from a Portland Hospital & CCBHC.
In February 2018, WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital set up an integrated behavioral health suite within its emergency department to better serve patients experiencing behavioral health emergencies.