Care Coordination

St. Louis-based SSM Health has the highest capacity of psychiatric beds in Missouri. As a result, EMS providers often bypass other hospitals to bring patients directly to SSM for behavioral health services, Becky Dvorak, MSN, RN, regional vice president of…

As national emergency department demand has surged, Cincinnati Children’s — operator of the nation’s largest inpatient mental health hospital for children and adolescents — has taken a bundled approach to the pediatric behavioral health crisis.  The strategy spans integrated behavioral…

Behavioral health integration is a goal often cited by leaders with respect to healthcare transformation. Yet in practice, the term can lack consistent meaning. Eleven leaders shared with Becker’s what real behavioral health integration should look like — clinically, operationally…

Peer support specialists were linked to an average reduction of 43% in inpatient services and a 30% increase in outpatient visits, according to a January brief from the American Hospital Association. Hospitals and health systems are increasingly integrating peer support…

After decades of working with a third-party vendor, Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health is bringing behavioral health intake and insurance authorization in house, with the new model set to go live in late January.  Russ Micoli, vice president of behavioral health…