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AHA podcast: A Health Equity Transformation Fuels Behavioral Health Access at Boston Medical Center
In this conversation, three experts from Boston Medical Center discuss the development of its Health Equity Accelerator, the partnerships needed to sustain the work and how BMC was able to expand access to behavioral health services to historically underserved communities.
AHA Podcast: Mobile Crisis Centers: A Solution to Behavioral Health Access
Two clinicians and a vehicle — that's the model Sheppard Pratt has been using to give behavioral health access to its communities.
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.
Infographic spotlights mental health challenges faced by minority populations and offers solutions
AHA’s Behavioral Health Team, in collaboration with AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, Sept. 16 released an infographic highlighting minority mental health.
AHA webinar highlights how ChristianaCare grew its peer support program to benefit all workers
Christine McGuire Chloros, program manager for ChristianaCare's Care for the Caregiver initiative, discusses how the health system has grown its health care worker peer support program from a single focus of supporting only physicians as second victims to a comprehensive peer support program for all workers.
AHA blog discusses the need to address minority mental health
Rosalyn Carpenter and Paul Rains, R.N., write about the importance of fostering an inclusive environment to reduce stigma around behavioral health care for historically underserved communities.
AHA podcast: Addressing Mental Health Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Access to quality mental and physical health services can be a complex challenge, but for individuals of color and people with severe or chronic mental illnesses, finding treatment can be exceptionally hard.
HHS authorizes five states to provide health care coverage for people transitioning out of incarceration
The Department of Health and Human Services July 2 announced it will provide Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program coverage to incarcerated people in Illinois, Kentucky, Oregon, Utah and Vermont prior to release.
Subcommittee advances bills to reauthorize programs to support health care workers, pediatric emergency care
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee March 12 passed AHA-supported legislation to reauthorize through 2029 the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 7153), which provides grants to help health care organizations offer behavioral health services for front-line health care workers.
CMS releases report on Medicare Advantage coverage disparities based on race, ethnicity and sex
A report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services examining disparities in care based on race, ethnicity and sex shows that in 2023, clinical care disparities were most common for Native American and African-American enrollees.