Access to Behavioral Health
Learn how SHGMH has worked with Newago County Mental Health (NCMH) to integrate behavioral health in Newaygo County, including embedding a NCMH clinician at two Rural Health Clinics. Speakers will share the impact of a comprehensive partnership between physical and behavioral health providers.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today released for comment draft legislation aimed at making electronic health records more interoperable.
In this discussion, Larry Phillips, D.C.S.W., Program Manager and Norah Erb R.N. Director of Nursing Practice SSM, St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City, will describe an innovative approach to integrating physical and behavioral care, via a monitored care unit.
AHA supports the integration of behavioral and physical health and helps hospitals play a key role in establishing partnerships to ensure access to a full continuum of behavioral health care.
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Merlyn LaPaix, MSN, MBA, LNC, Director, Psychiatric Nursing, Stephen Merz, FACHE, Vice President & Executive Director, Behavioral Health, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital; and William Sledge, M.D., George D and Esther S Gross Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, describe…