Access to Behavioral Health

The AHA today expressed support for bipartisan legislation that would expand access to treatment of mental illnesses and substance use disorders through community-based clinics.  
The Issue The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 19 released draft revised guidance to clarify its ligature risk policy, which pertains to environmental safeguards for patients at risk of harm to self or others.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education last night approved legislation that would provide $189.8 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, HHS and Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2020.
What is Trauma-informed Care?
On Oct. 24, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-271).
Learn how an Oregon association collaborated with community stakeholders to produce an evidence-based toolkit to prevent workplace violence.
AHA’s The Value Initiative and Section for Psychiatric & Substance Abuse Services are hosting a virtual workshop series exploring how hospitals are addressing the behavioral health needs of their communities to improve value. Visit www.aha.org/behavioralhealth to register for an upcoming…
The latest Advancing Health podcast from the AHA features Dr. Stephen Patrick, an attending neonatologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy, who shares how his system is working to improve outcomes for opioid-exposed…