Access to Behavioral Health
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Mercy's Joslin Diabetes Center (JDC) provides comprehensive diabetes education and insulin management services for people of all ages. Team members include an endocrinologist, nurse diabetes educators, dietitian diabetes educators, a podiatrist, an exercise specialist, and a mental…
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The Behavioral Health Consultant (BHC) project embeds psychologists trained in integrated primary care directly into clinics throughout the region. These providers work with the primary care provider to address mental and emotional issues that can affect a patient's ability to comply…
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In 1999, when two local hospital emergency departments (EDs) and a small primary care clinic closed, the remaining local EDs struggled to serve one of the state’s largest uninsured patient populations. Orange County providers, including Orange County Government, hospitals, federally…
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The Golden Heart Project is a coalition working to alleviate the impact of chronic alcoholism on individuals and the community. Partners from organizations representing public safety and corrections, government, health care, business, and behavioral health treatment work together to…
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The Bridge assists patients by linking them with primary health care providers, continuous health insurance, mental health or substance abuse counseling and treatment, housing, and various other social and medical services. The program's main goals are to improve health outcomes,…
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The Bayhealth Wellness Centers work to meet the physical needs of young people, as well as their nutritional, mental, and emotional needs. Available at area high schools, the Bayhealth Wellness Centers provide services related to physical health, nutrition, mental health, laboratory…
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COACH (Community Outreach Assistance for Children’s Health) for Kids and Their Families is a pediatric mobile medical and case management program that provides primary health care services to low-income and homeless children and their families. These families face multiple barriers to…
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Catholic Medical Center’s Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Program/Mobile Community Health Team Project is a “clinic without walls” that provides primary medical care, mental health care, nursing case management, addiction counseling, social services, and health education to homeless…
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The Interim Care Program (ICP) provides shelters in Placer and Sacramento counties that offer homeless men and women a place to recuperate from their medical conditions following hospital discharge. The same program, but under a different name – the Transitional Care Program (TCP) – is…
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Far from home, a new life begins. Over the past decade, Boise has quietly become one of a select number of U.S. cities to serve as an official “resettlement” destination for international refugee families fleeing troubled regions across the globe. The refugee population resettling in…