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Connecting behavioral health patients to outpatient services

Florida's Lee Memorial Health System is using several strategies to connect emergency department patients with mental health and/or substance abuse problems to the outpatient care they
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Behavioral health crisis center reduces ED visits, shrinks health disparities

Behavioral health integration often improves patient outcomes, enhances patient and provider satisfaction, and lowers costs — otherwise known as the Triple Aim of health care reform.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan

Disrupting Behavioral Health: Achieving Greater Access and Equity

Some provider organizations are developing powerful networks by forging broad-based community partnerships, integrating physical and behavioral health care and more to address barriers to access. During a recent AHA Transformation Talks video, leaders from WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., shared strategies to overcome these disparities and increase patient access to appropriate caregivers at the right time and place.
AHA Knowledge Exchange

Empowering Patient Engagement and Behavior Change to Improve Health and Reduce Disparities

Empowering patient engagement and leveraging customized communication and education via digital technologies to improve health and reduce disparities.
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AHA blog: Reducing Barriers to Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment 

Mary Thompson — a member of AHA’s Committee on Behavioral Health and president of Trillium Place, a mental health and addiction recovery organization affiliated with Carle Health — explains how the Illinois-based organization works to integrate physical and behavioral health services to improve access to care among historically underrepresented communities and eliminate health disparities.
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Reducing Disparities in Health Outcomes

AHA members are pursuing practices that can reduce health outcome disparities and thereby improve health outcomes for all populations.