Access to Behavioral Health
The organization's initial foray into virtual health care was the creation of a home telehealth service. "Health buddies" visit veterans in their homes to administer and record simple diagnostic information and communicate it back to providers. In 2011, Martinsburg's program grew with the…
Treatment, housing and employment opportunities – not incarceration – are what helps people overcome substance use disorder (SUD), says Muriel Castiel, M.D., the health and human services commissioner for Worcester, Mass.
Livingston HealthCare | Livingston, MT
Many rural counties are experiencing high rates of suicide, substance abuse, and other behavioral health issues, compounded by the fact that there is often a shortage of mental health practitioners in those areas. That is why, via a grant from the Montana…
Freeman Health System | Joplin, MO
Located on 20 acres of land that used to house an orphanage, Turnaround Ranch is a 71-bed residential treatment facility that provides 24-hour residential care; individual, group, family, and recreational therapies; and psychiatric services for youths ages 10 to…
Bronson Healthcare | Kalamazoo, MI
Bronson Healthcare is a regional health system serving nine counties in southwest Michigan. Its flagship hospital implemented a Frequent User System Engagement 2.0 (FUSE) pilot program – a collaborative effort targeting frequent users of the emergency department…
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD
Services specific to perinatal mental health are sparse in our state, and those that exist are often difficult to access. In 2003, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore launched the Perinatal Depression Outreach Program (PDOP) to improve infant and maternal well-…
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north region, has been engaged in primary care-behavioral health integration for the last 30 years. However, the organization began implementing a formal system of integration based…
Cambridge Health Alliance | Somerville, MA
Studies have found that Medicaid patients with serious mental illnesses have a significant mortality gap compared with the Medicaid population without serious mental illness. For example, people with schizophrenia die an average of 27.5 years younger—and…
AHA Special Bulletin: White House Releases FY 2019 Budget Request with Medicare, Medicaid Reductions
President Trump today submitted to Congress his budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2019.
New Council Leaders…Mary Lou Mastro, system CEO for Edward-Elmhurst Health in Naperville, Ill., is 2018 council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services. Behavioral Health Top AHA Advocacy Item and more.