Access to Behavioral Health
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will host a July 10 webinar.
Advocacy update, news, and more. Download the cover note below.
Read the July 2018 Behavioral Health Update here.
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center | Omaha, NE
Annually, more than 250,000 children from a five-state region receive care at children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, the only full-service pediatric health care center in the state. But two converging factors – physician shortages…
Held July 17
PRE-EVENT READING
Please join Paul Goering, M.D., Vice President – Clinical Care, Mental Health Services, Allina Health; Joe Clubb, Vice President – Operations, Mental Health Services, Allina Health; and Aimee Pappenfus, Manager – Community Partnerships, Allina Health, Minneapolis,…
Comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the fiscal year (FY) 2019 proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) and quality reporting updates.
The California Hospital Association and other partners this week launched Behavioral Health Action, a statewide effort to engage candidates and highlight the importance of addressing behavioral health issues in 2018 elections.
We were pleased to see the House of Representatives this week move forward dozens of bills designed to address aspects of the opioid epidemic that costs more than 100 American lives each day and continues to ravage communities across the nation.
Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: Google is researching technology that could reduce physician paperwork; WHO says gaming addiction is now an official disorder; and more.
Suicides have increased by more than 25 percent during the past decade, and it is now the tenth-leading cause of death in the U.S., costing more than $44 billion annually.
Also in this weekly roundup of nurse news: resources for nurse leaders in the battle against nurse suicide.