Website Search Results for: behavioral health workforce
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Date: Dec 2024
Explores the adoption and use of health information technology (HIT) among behavioral health providers. Presents findings from a literature review and focus group interviews regarding digital strategies that support integrated care models between physical health and behavioral health. Discusses how a lagging adoption and interoperability of HIT may affect community-based behavioral health providers working with underserved populations. Identifies policy considerations to increase interoperable HIT use among behavioral health providers. Includes rural references throughout.
...Behavioral health workforce · Care coordination · Health information technology · Integrated service delivery · Policy · Statistics and data...
Date: Nov 2024
Presents findings from an environmental scan, key informant interviews, and case studies exploring efforts to measure and monitor provider networks through wait time standards. Describes how wait time standards can vary by provider type, service type, patient characteristics, and geographic region. Discusses challenges faced by state regulators in setting such standards. Includes rural references throughout.
...Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, RTI International Access · Behavioral health · Behavioral health workforce · Policy...
Date: Jun 2022
County-level map showing North Carolina telepsychiatry sites and provider hubs, with shadings for rural and urban counties.
...Access · Behavioral health workforce · Mental health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Telehealth · North Carolina...
Date: May 2023
Provides an overview of behavioral health and primary care integration and how integration may be different in rural areas than in urban and suburban areas. Examines the barriers to integration in rural areas and opportunities for policies that can improve access to care. Offers policy recommendations to better coordinate and integrate primary care and behavioral health services for high-risk groups and expand the ability of primary care providers to handle the lower-acuity behavioral health needs of patients through enhanced payments, training, and improved access to behavioral health providers for consultation and referral. Builds on the March 2021 report, Tackling America's Mental Health and Addiction Crisis Through Primary Care Integration.
...Behavioral health workforce · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply...
Date: Oct 2015
Policy brief describing the driving forces behind rural health disparities in Appalachian Kentucky. Offers nationally relevant recommendations for addressing these challenges. Discusses rural and urban differences in life expectancy and mortality rates, and other significant factors including behavioral health, substance abuse, population health, trauma care, and transportation.
...Behavioral health workforce · Community health workers · Emergency department and urgent care services · Mortality · Population health...
Date: Jul 2025
Blog post discussing the rural health transformation program established in the July 2025 budget reconciliation law. Describes potential priorities for states' use of the rural health transformation program funding. Outlines additional steps Congress could take to help rural hospitals serve their communities.
...Behavioral health workforce · Emergency medical services · Funding · Hospitals · Legislation and regulations · Medicare · Policy · Technology for health...
Date: May 2023
Podcast episode regarding the recruitment, training, and retention of behavioral health specialists in rural areas. Discusses the University of Iowa Health Care rural psychiatry residency track and Public Psychiatry Fellowship program.
...Behavioral health workforce · Graduate medical education · Health workforce education and training · Physicians · Policy · Recruitment and retention...
Date: Jul 2018
Describes the development, impact, lessons learned, and future goals of a telepsychiatry program designed to provide behavioral healthcare services to children in rural Nebraska.
...07/2018 American Hospital Association Access · Behavioral health workforce · Children and youth · Mental health · Telehealth · Nebraska...
Date: Apr 2013
Reports on a research trial comparing patient outcomes between a practice-based and telemedicine based collaborative primary care model to address depression in rural Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Includes data on both collaborative care models by patient characteristics, for example age, income, insurance, marital status, and more.
...Behavioral health workforce · Delta Region · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Mental health conditions · Primary care · Statistics...
Date: Apr 2017
Examines the factors in rural Central Appalachia that influence substance misuse and the treatments, strategies, and interventions to curb drug misuse and improve treatment outcomes. Discusses how the combination of poverty, work-related distress, lack of healthcare coverage, and the shortage of qualified providers of substance use treatments affect the need for a multifaceted policy approach in the region.
...Behavioral health workforce · County-by-county data · Health workforce supply and demand · Illicit drug use · Prescription...