Access to Behavioral Health
In this discussion, Larry Phillips, D.C.S.W., Program Manager and Norah Erb R.N. Director of Nursing Practice SSM, St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City, will describe an innovative approach to integrating physical and behavioral care, via a monitored care unit.
AHA supports the integration of behavioral and physical health and helps hospitals play a key role in establishing partnerships to ensure access to a full continuum of behavioral health care.
What is it?
The Violence Intervention Program is an intensive hospital-based intervention that provides social assistance to victims of violent injury. Victims receive assessment, counseling and social support from a multidisciplinary team to help make critical changes in their lives. Although…
What is it?
Harborview is testing an innovative approach to gun violence patterned on alcohol and substance abuse interventions. After clinical staff treat patients’ gunshot wounds, social workers interview them and begin to address high-risk behaviors. Following discharge, a case manager is…
What is it?
Revere CARES is a community coalition founded in 1997 to reduce substance abuse by empowering the community of Revere, Mass. With support from Massachusetts General Hospital, the coalition engages multiple sectors to successfully advocate for policy, systems and environmental changes…
What is it?
Project Ujima is a multidisciplinary collaboration addressing youth and adult violence in Milwaukee using individual, family and community intervention and prevention strategies.
Merlyn LaPaix, MSN, MBA, LNC, Director, Psychiatric Nursing, Stephen Merz, FACHE, Vice President & Executive Director, Behavioral Health, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital; and William Sledge, M.D., George D and Esther S Gross Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine,…
AHA letter to Representatives Joseph Pitts and Gene Green regarding H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015.
Held October 22, 2015
On behalf of the American Hospital Association Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services, I invite you to join a small group of your executive colleagues for a webinar and discussion on Telepsychiatry -- an effective solution to improving access to timely care for…
AHA letter to Representatives Fred Upton and Frank Pallone, Jr. regarding H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act.