Capacity Planning
The current behavioral health system is not fully meeting the needs of patients in New Jersey, where more than 240,000 adults live with a severe mental illness and a growing number of adults require treatment for substance use disorder. To address these challenges, five health systems have joined…
In 2014, a group of stakeholders in Kansas City – including representatives from law enforcement, hospitals, courts, city government, mental health, and homeless shelters – started convening monthly to determine how to provide appropriate help to individuals with behavioral health issues who don’t…
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…
Acadia Hospital | Bangor, ME
A member of the Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS), Acadia Hospital is a non-profit acute care psychiatric hospital employing more than
600 professionals. Acadia Hospital serves the entire state of Maine, providing care for children, adolescents, and adults…
Hospitals and Health Systems Ensuring Access in Their Communities is a compendium of case examples of AHA members from across the country employing the nine emerging strategies recommended by the association’s Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities.
Held February 11, 2016
On October 10, 2017, executives from Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD shared how they developed and implemented "Sanford One Care" an enterprise wide, integrative, team-based collaborative to improve access to integrated behavioral and physical health care.
Vincent Capece, President & CEO, Terri Dipietro, Director, Center for Behavioral Health, and Dr. Michael Saxe, Chair Department Emergency Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, CT, will describe CCT’s coordinated delivery of care to people with serious mental illness and/or substance abuse…
Expanding an Effective Jail Diversion Program in the Emergency Room – Florida 11th Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project Collaborates with West Kendall Baptist
Aaron Wood, Administrator, and Brooke Health, Communications Specialist, and Kristofer Lundeberg, LCSW, Behavioral Health Network Coordinator, Sanpete Valley Hospital, Mount Pleasant, Utah, part of Intermountain Healthcare will describe how they helped launch the Sanpete Behavioral Community Health…