Behavioral Health Care Delivery
Benjamin Van Voorhees, M.D., the University of Illinois Medical Center’s chief of general pediatrics, is teaching children coping skills through a combination of online learning and traditional counseling. He hopes a technology-based “behavioral vaccine” can reduce the risk of mental illness for a…
HELD: Thursday, September 7, 2017 2:30 - 3:30 PM CDT
A discussion on the effective integration of behavioral health and oncology featuring executives from Massachusetts General Hospital was held on Thursday, September 7.
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.
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.
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…
The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care began in 1972. Home-based primary care is a unique program that provides comprehensive longitudinal primary care by an interdisciplinary team in the homes of veterans with complex chronic disabling disease for whom routine clinic-based care…
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement strategies that will assist in delivering care that is safe, timely, equitable, effective, efficient and patient-centered.
This AHA/HRET guide explains the value of integrating physical and behavioral health services and the importance of measuring integration efforts.
Opportunities to Improve Quality, Costs and Outcomes