Access to Behavioral Health
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on 12 health care bills, including one that would impact the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program.
Newsletter highlighting AHA resources, advocacy updates, and more regarding behavioral health.
May 2019 Behavioral Health Update
When the Sisters of St. Joseph were founded in 1650, Fr. Medaille asked the original Sisters to go into their neighborhoods, identify the needs of the poor and work with partners to meet them. Over the past two decades, St. Jude Medical Center has carried on this heritage by helping to start and…
(Podcast) Shelly Rivello, director of integrated care at J.C. Blair Health System in Huntington, Pa., and Carrie Henning-Smith, assistant professor and deputy director of the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health Research Center in Minneapolis, discuss innovative models and evidence-based…
We also hope you'll join us on the AHA and the National Council for Behavioral Health on Wednesday, June 12 at 3:30 p.m. ET for a virtual workshop on: Expanding Access to Behavioral Health through Collaboration: Lessons from a Portland Hospital & CCBHC.
In February 2018, WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital set up an integrated behavioral health suite within its emergency department to better serve patients experiencing behavioral health emergencies.
Joseph Miller, vice president of behavioral health care transformation services at Hackensack Meridian Health, and the chair of AHA’s Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services, discusses better coordinating care and innovating treatment for patients with a primary diagnosis of mental…
AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., and Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, highlight a guide that offers health care organizations a “one-stop shop” of actionable interventions and curated tools and resources to deliver quality…
During Mental Health Month, let’s all remember that caring for the whole person improves health and saves lives.
As part of its efforts to promote behavioral health strategies, the AHA today released a TrendWatch report outlining the opportunities, barriers and solutions to increase access to behavioral health care.