Access to Behavioral Health
Learn how five local hospital systems created a course to train people to perform "adult mental health first aid," giving members of the public skills to help someone who is developing or experiencing a mental health crisis
Update on Key Issues in the Behavioral Health Care Field: August 2018
Highlights
Webinar on a Mental Health First Aid Training Collaboration in Jacksonville, FL
AHA Special Bulletin that highlights the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' calendar year 2019 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule.
In an effort to make care more accessible to its changing community, Washington, D.C.-based Providence Health System will transition out of acute care services by the end of 2018 and will instead offer care coordination, telehealth services and virtual care, primary and urgent care, home care,…
Also in this weekly roundup of news from the field: Atul Gawande to embark on listening tour at new company; physicians are leaving Puerto Rico in great numbers; and replacing vacant lots with green spaces can ease depression in urban communities.
Four health systems are working together to meet the behavioral health needs of patients in Portland, Oregon.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to examine the status of mental health initiatives under the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will host a July 10 webinar.
Advocacy update, news, and more. Download the cover note below.
Read the July 2018 Behavioral Health Update here.
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center | Omaha, NE
Annually, more than 250,000 children from a five-state region receive care at children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, the only full-service pediatric health care center in the state. But two converging factors – physician shortages…