Capacity Planning
Acadia Hospital | Bangor, ME
A member of the Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS), Acadia Hospital is a non-profit acute care psychiatric hospital employing more than
600 professionals. Acadia Hospital serves the entire state of Maine, providing care for children, adolescents, and adults…
Hospitals and Health Systems Ensuring Access in Their Communities is a compendium of case examples of AHA members from across the country employing the nine emerging strategies recommended by the association’s Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities.
Held February 11, 2016
On October 10, 2017, executives from Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD shared how they developed and implemented "Sanford One Care" an enterprise wide, integrative, team-based collaborative to improve access to integrated behavioral and physical health care.
Vincent Capece, President & CEO, Terri Dipietro, Director, Center for Behavioral Health, and Dr. Michael Saxe, Chair Department Emergency Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, CT, will describe CCT’s coordinated delivery of care to people with serious mental illness and/or substance abuse…
Expanding an Effective Jail Diversion Program in the Emergency Room – Florida 11th Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project Collaborates with West Kendall Baptist
Aaron Wood, Administrator, and Brooke Health, Communications Specialist, and Kristofer Lundeberg, LCSW, Behavioral Health Network Coordinator, Sanpete Valley Hospital, Mount Pleasant, Utah, part of Intermountain Healthcare will describe how they helped launch the Sanpete Behavioral Community Health…
The speakers will share how a Northern Shenandoah Valley community coalesced to develop strategies to effectively respond to the challenge of heroin and opiate abuse in a rural Virginia community.
Overview
In January 2016, UnityPoint Health’s Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health was awarded a contract from the Eastern Iowa Mental Health/Disability Services Region to develop, implement and manage crisis behavioral health services for the 300,000 residents of five counties in…
Overview
Houston is struggling with a mental health crisis. With a shortage of psychiatric facilities and a lack of financial resources, insured and uninsured patients are left seeking services from emergency department (ED) physicians and nurses untrained in psychiatry. They face problems that…