Capacity Planning
The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to approve a notice of proposed rulemaking to establish a new $100 million 鈥淐onnected Care Pilot Program鈥 to support telehealth for low-income Americans, including veterans and those living in rural areas.
To increase access to behavioral health care, Atrium Health employs a virtual behavioral health integration program at 36 of its primary care and pediatric sites.
AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., and Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, highlight a guide that offers health care organizations a 鈥渙ne-stop shop鈥 of actionable interventions and curated tools and resources to deliver quality鈥
During Mental Health Month, let鈥檚 all remember that caring for the whole person improves health and saves lives.
Held Wednesday, May 15, 2019
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鈥
In 2014, a group of stakeholders in Kansas City 鈥 including representatives from law enforcement, hospitals, courts, city government, mental health, and homeless shelters 鈥 started convening monthly to determine how to provide appropriate help to individuals with behavioral health issues who don鈥檛鈥
Children鈥檚 Hospital & Medical Center | Omaha, NE
Annually, more than 250,000 children from a five-state region receive care at children鈥檚 Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, the only full-service pediatric health care center in the state. But two converging factors 鈥 physician shortages鈥
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鈥
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鈥檚 Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities.