Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention
Today researchers are expanding their focus to assess the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychiatry and therapy to include facial recognition, text analysis software and other tools. The aim is to supplement clinicians鈥 efforts to spot mental illnesses earlier and improve treatments鈥
EmPATH 鈥 or Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing 鈥 is designed to guide patients safely through a current crisis while building coping skills that will guide them through future challenges. Though it just opened in March, this unit is moving emergency mental health care in a new鈥
Nearly one in five health care workers say they need mental health services due to the pandemic but have yet to seek care because they鈥檙e too busy, unable to get time off work, can鈥檛 afford it or are too afraid or embarrassed.
The House of Representatives early this morning voted 219-212 to approve a modified version of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, legislation to provide reconciliation protection for a roughly $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which includes a number of provisions that affect hospitals and鈥
- Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
- Legislation and Legislative Advocacy
- Advocacy & Public Policy
- COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics
- Medicaid
- Marketplace Issues/Stability
- Medicare DSH
- Substance Use Disorder
- Behavioral Health Intervention & Issues Prevention
- Workforce
- Skilled Nursing Facility PPS
- OSHA
- Rural issues
Overview
In 1995, a group of Bridgeport health, education, and social service providers began meeting to address the challenges of young children and families who were 鈥渇alling through the cracks鈥 and not receiving critically needed services. A collaboration among early childhood service providers鈥