Behavioral Health Care Delivery
Intermountain Healthcare Inc. executives, Brenda Reiss-Brennan Ph.D., APRN, Director, and Scott Hammer, Project Manager, Strategy & Operations, Mental Health Integration highlight Intermountain’s innovative integration of physical and behavioral health services.
The Department of Health and Human Services this week released a plan to better coordinate federal and state efforts to enforce parity requirements under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and other federal laws.
Opioid addiction is a mounting public health crisis. Individuals with substance use disorder are struggling with a brain disease. At our hospitals and health systems, we must promote a culture that fully understands this disease. And it’s important that health care providers make a distinction…
Held April 11, 2018
Please join Montefiore Health System Executive Henry Chung, M.D., Senior Medical Director, Montefiore Care Management Organization and Professor of Psychiatry, on Wednesday, April 11, at 2 p.m. ET for a special AHA members-only webinar presentation and discussion highlighting…
This edition includes an AHA Advocacy Update, AHA Regulatory Update, and other resources.
Read more about how Boston Medical Center is Setting a National Example in Reducing Stigma
Every day, hospitals witness the devastating effects of the opioid epidemic on the patients, families, and communities we serve. Prescription opioids can be a safe and necessary element of pain management for those who have experienced trauma or are suffering from cancer, sickle cell disease or…
The undersigned groups respectfully request that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
adjust aggregate production quotas (APQ) for certain opioids in order to mitigate ongoing drug
shortages.
Pre-Webinar Reading: Understanding the Behavioral Health Crisis, Ronald A. Paulus, M.D., President & CEO, Mission Health
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs have selected eight cities to participate in the first year of a joint initiative to prevent suicide among service members, veterans and their families.