From the onset of the pandemic, Dr. Roca notes there’s been a tension between avoiding contagion and the need to mitigate the toxicity of isolation. His patients frequently share two common concerns: fear of the virus and distress from separation from family and friends. Many Americans, especially older adults, he
Data scientists Prof. Martin Connor and Dr. Christopher Ogg are using real-time data to eliminate long wait times, bottlenecks, and service delays in crisis care. The end-game, says Connor, “is to see the entire system.”
16-year-old Reina Chiang and her mother, Kana Enomoto, a national leader in behavioral healthcare, share their experience navigating the Maryland crisis care system. It includes long wait times in the emergency room and inpatient hospitalization, which Chiang calls a short-term bandaid that’s more like a prison, with kids waiting around
Ted Lutterman of NRI shares how 23 states, with funding from SAMHSA, are developing real-time psychiatric bed registries to improve timely access to mental health treatment. Some states are going beyond beds by creating a comprehensive crisis services registry. Covid has caused implementation delays, but states have found that having
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