Access to Behavioral Health

A committee created by the 21st Century Cures Act to better coordinate federal efforts to address serious mental illness and emotional disturbance today released its recommendations to Congress and federal agencies.
AHA's Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services promotes and enhances the understanding and importance of behavioral health care thru AHA policy, advocacy, and service efforts specific to psychiatric and substance abuse service providers. No additional dues are required to join the…
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.
Rebecca B. Chickey, AHA Director, Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services sits down with Jeffrey W.
2018 CALLS October 30 Scripps Health’s A-Visi
AHA Resources AHA News: HHS Releases Plan to Better Enforce Parity Requirements, April 25, 2018 Webinar Recording: Improving Behavioral Health Margins and Making the Parity Law work for Patients & Providers, December 2017 AHA News: CMS issues FAQs on Medicaid/CHIP
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…
Richard Wohl, M.S.W, M.B.A., President and Marguerite Pedley, Ph.D., Vice President, Inpatient Services at Princeton House Behavioral Health, a division of The Princeton HealthCare System in Princeton, NJ, will describe the organizational culture and provide an overview of the processes and staff…
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