Behavioral Health Care Delivery
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…
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.
September 26, 2017 Webinar
The KC Mental Health Assessment and Triage Center (KC-ATC) shared the unique story of its inception and an overview of the operations, successes and challenges for area hospitals and partners.
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Webinar Replay
The AHA hosted a webinar on “Health Behaviors and the Role of Hospitals,” an accompaniment to an upcoming guide in our social determinants of health series. As hospitals and health systems are addressing more population health issues, unhealthy behaviors such as excess alcohol intake, smoking…
Behavioral Health Services Committee - 2022 Roster
Update on Key Issues in the Behavioral Health Care Field: January 2018
This list of publications, educational recordings, and case studies has been compiled to help you in your efforts to understand and foster behavioral health community collaborations.
Held December 13, 2017
Depression among hospitalized patients is often unrecognized, undiagnosed, and therefore untreated. Hospitalization represents an unrecognized opportunity to optimize both mental and physical health outcomes. At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 95% of patients…
AHA's Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services promotes and enhances the understanding and importance of behavioral health care thru AHA policy, advocacy, and service efforts specific to psychiatric and substance abuse service providers. No additional dues are required to join the…