Tulsa, Okla.-based OSU Medicine launched OSU Maternal and Addiction Recovery Care, a program that offers prenatal care, addiction treatment and mental health counseling in one location to pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use disorders. The program held a ribbon-cutting…
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Health systems are investing in care coordination programs for patients who visit the emergency department most often, many of them for needs the ED can’t meet. By connecting patients with housing, food, transportation, behavioral health and medical services, the goal…
The geriatric inpatient mental health unit at Oklahoma City VA Health Care System reduced behavioral reports by 35% during the first year of implementing nonpharmacological interventions for veterans with dementia, according to a July 2026 American Hospital Association case study.…
A patient who comes back to the emergency department repeatedly is often bringing more than a medical problem. Unstable housing, mental health and substance use challenges, food insecurity, unreliable transportation and trouble getting follow-up care can all send individuals back…
Behavioral health patients often wait longer than other emergency department patients for a bed. Along the way, patients may end up receiving care in the most expensive setting available, or experiencing distress in an often-hectic environment. Now, health systems are…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Mental Health Cooperative has held cost growth for its highest-need Medicaid members to less than half the rate of its peers by building its model around one idea: Patients with serious mental illness shouldn’t have to find their…
Seattle Children’s is experiencing high demand for emergency mental healthcare, with many pediatric patients remaining in its emergency department for more than 24 hours while awaiting further treatment or discharge. The extended stays occur after patients receive initial evaluations and…
Hampton, Va.-based Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center’s psychiatric emergency department has cut the average time patients spend in an emergency room from more than 10 hours to about six hours and 20 minutes, WHRO reported Oct. 2. The department…
Eatontown, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery’s Peer Recovery Program has grown from an emergency department initiative to a program integrated across all 12 RWJBarnabas Health acute care facilities over the last decade. The program launched in 2016…
Health systems are pouring capital, staff and new programs into outpatient behavioral health, and the numbers explain why. Demand is growing far faster than population trends alone would predict, and the gap between requests for care and available appointments is…