Access to Behavioral Health
This AHA report provides a review of the current state for the behavioral health workforce, outlines a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities that hospitals and health systems are facing and possible new ways to build future capacity.
Update on Key Issues in the Behavioral Health Care Field: June 2016
AHA letter to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding medication-assisted treatment for opiod user disorders.
Community Hospital of Monterey (Calif.) Peninsula (CHOMP), part of Montage Health, took action two years ago to address the prescription opioid abuse crisis in its county of some 415,000 residents. The community-wide effort, called Prescribe Safe, has led to a sharp decline in the number of…
Hospitalizations for opioid abuse/dependence increased 72% between 2002 and 2012 to an estimated 520,275 per year, while hospitalizations for opioid-associated infections rose 91% to 6,535, according to a study published today in Health Affairs. Intravenous administration of opioids and heroin…
AHA letter to Representatives Fred Upton and Frank Pallone, Jr. expressing views regarding opioid legislation pending before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
AHA comments to HHS on the proposed revision to the regulation governing the confidentiality of substance use disorder patients' records.
Held May 12, 2016
Please join a group of your executive colleagues for a webinar and discussion. Robin Henderson, PsyD, Chief Executive, Behavioral Health, Providence Medical, Group, Portland, OR with Lori Raney, M.D., Principal, HMA, Denver, CO will describe the many factors that support the…