Access to Behavioral Health
A new AHA issue brief offers resources and strategies to improve care for 鈥渉igh-need, high-cost patients鈥 鈥 adults who have three or more chronic diseases and functional limitations in their ability to care for themselves or perform routine daily tasks. Access the resource at www.aha.org/hnhc.
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.
This web page is designed to provide easy access to information and tools that will assist hospitals and health systems in navigating the changing behavioral health care system and understanding national, state and local activities affecting behavioral health.
Benjamin Van Voorhees, M.D., the University of Illinois Medical Center鈥檚 chief of general pediatrics, is teaching children coping skills through a combination of online learning and traditional counseling. He hopes a technology-based 鈥渂ehavioral vaccine鈥 can reduce the risk of mental illness for a鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued answers to frequently asked questions about payments to Medicaid and Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program managed care organizations and prepaid inpatient health plans for patients in an institution for mental disease.
Terry Horton, M.D., saw an opportunity for early intervention.
Patients showed up in Christiana Care Health System鈥檚 emergency department (ED) with illnesses caused by substance use disorders. The ED team knew they needed help for more than the strokes, broken limbs, high blood pressure and鈥
President Trump yesterday said the opioid epidemic was a national emergency, and he is instructing the administration to use all appropriate emergency and other authorities to respond to the crisis. "The opioid crisis is an emergency and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency," Trump鈥