Access to Behavioral Health
What is it?
COACH (Community Outreach Assistance for Children’s Health) for Kids and Their Families is a pediatric mobile medical and case management program that provides primary health care services to low-income and homeless children and their families. These families face multiple barriers to…
Overview
Catholic Medical Center’s Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Program/Mobile Community Health Team Project is a “clinic without walls” that provides primary medical care, mental health care, nursing case management, addiction counseling, social services, and health education to homeless…
Overview
The Interim Care Program (ICP) provides shelters in Placer and Sacramento counties that offer homeless men and women a place to recuperate from their medical conditions following hospital discharge. The same program, but under a different name – the Transitional Care Program (TCP) – is…
Overview
Far from home, a new life begins. Over the past decade, Boise has quietly become one of a select number of U.S. cities to serve as an official “resettlement” destination for international refugee families fleeing troubled regions across the globe. The refugee population resettling in…
Charles Clark, senior vice president, Behavioral Health, Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne, IN , discusses his initiative with two local Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs)-to improve post discharge patient follow-up, and reduce 30-day readmissions of psychiatric patients.
Opportunities to Improve Quality, Costs and Outcomes
One in four Americans experiences a mental illness or substance abuse disorder each year, and the majority also has a comorbid physical health condition. In 2009, more than 2 million discharges from community hospitals were for a primary diagnosis of mental illness or substance abuse disorder.…
The following organizations offer mental and behavioral health resources and tools to aid health care providers and individuals in their communities.
Previous Conference Calls for Members
2011 CALLS
June 29, 2011
Behavioral Health Task Force Report
The AHA developed Behavioral Health Challenges in the General Hospital: Practical Help for Hospital Leaders to assist community hospitals improve their behavioral health services.