Community Connections
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Camp Charlie is a free, unique expressive arts bereavement camp run by the staff and volunteers of Safe Harbor, Abington-Jefferson Health’s peer support program for grieving children, teens and families. Camp serves children ages 6 to 12, as well as teen “buddies” ages 13 to 18, who have…
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Banner Health recently launched a telemedicine program in which master’s-level therapists, counselors, and other trained clinicians, backed up by physicians and nurse practitioners, triage behavioral health patients who arrive in the emergency department (ED). Banner already had a team of…
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PeaceHealth is a family of hospitals, clinics, and doctors, based in the Pacific Northwest. This network of faith-based, mission-oriented facilities has grown to include services throughout Oregon, Washington and Alaska. PeaceHealth Oregon West Network is one of four networks offering a…
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PeaceHealth is a family of hospitals, clinics, and doctors, based in the Pacific Northwest. This network of faith-based, mission-oriented facilities has grown to include services throughout Oregon, Washington and Alaska. PeaceHealth Oregon West Network is one of four networks offering a…
PeaceHealth Behavioral Health Services (BHS) is composed of a continuum of care that provides a range of services, including inpatient psychiatric care, partial hospitalization, transition services, telemental health, crisis services, outpatient psychiatry and counseling, research projects, primary…
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The United States population of older adults is expected to increase from 12 percent to 21 percent by 2030. In preparation for the anticipated growth, Clara Maass Medical Center implemented the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) to provide extra attention and care to senior citizens…
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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…
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The Emergency Department Initiative (EDI) is a collaboration between Northridge Hospital Medical Center and Tarzana Treatment Center (TTC) that began in 2004. TTC has extensive experience in primary care, HIV/AIDS, substance use disorders, and mental health. The objective of the…
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In 2006, Intermountain Health designated a system-wide fund for mental health initiatives throughout the state. The driving philosophy was to increase access to follow-up care for hospital patients, decrease the use of the emergency departments (EDs), and provide personal medication…
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Samaritan Health Services (SHS) believes that everyone in the community deserves quality health care. With this in mind and supporting the organization’s motto of building healthy communities together, in 1993 SHS partnered with the Linn County Department of Health and Human Services and…