Access to Behavioral Health
Integrating behavioral health services to treat the whole patient across the continuum of care is vital to improving health in our communities — and it’s just one of the many ways hospitals and health systems are working to advance health in America.
The House of Representatives last night passed legislation (H.R. 3253) that includes an AHA-supported provision that would extend the Community Mental Health Services demonstration through 2021.
Treating the whole patient — both mind and body — in a well-coordinated system has become essential to health care’s mission. But integrating behavioral health into every aspect of patient care and coordinating and connecting with community resources across all points in the care continuum often…
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed guidance on ligature risk.
Integrating behavioral health care into primary care is improves care and decreases costs, but restricted access to behavioral health providers makes integration seem daunting. Atrium Health has tackled this issue and developed a truly integrated and financially sustainable model.
Behavioral health disorders have significant impact on individual and community health, utilization of services and costs. Hospitals and health systems are shifting their focus to treating the whole patient and creating a continuum of care that reflects integration at each point in a patient’s…
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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on 12 health care bills, including one that would impact the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program.
Newsletter highlighting AHA resources, advocacy updates, and more regarding behavioral health.
May 2019 Behavioral Health Update
When the Sisters of St. Joseph were founded in 1650, Fr. Medaille asked the original Sisters to go into their neighborhoods, identify the needs of the poor and work with partners to meet them. Over the past two decades, St. Jude Medical Center has carried on this heritage by helping to start and…