Latest Primary Care Behavioral health Stories

The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is being published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Giving a global perspective on integrating mental health into health services around the world, the series focuses on mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders. Although these disorders account for an increasing burden of disease,...

Includes physician group UnityPoint Clinic and home care provider UnityPoint at Home DES MOINES, Iowa, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Iowa Health System, the nation's fifth largest non-denominational health system, is now UnityPoint Health (www.unitypoint.org), a new name that reflects the way its hospitals, physicians and home care entities are transforming health care delivery through patient-centered coordinated care. This overall system name also includes the...

OAKLAND, Calif., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Adult patients with diabetes who don't understand basic health information are significantly less likely to take newly prescribed antidepressant medication, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study in The Journal of General Internal Medicine. In this study conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the University of Washington School of Medicine, 72 percent of the 1,366 study participants had limited health literacy...

- Thought leaders in medicine and home health outline advanced models of home care and innovations with significant outcomes - WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (the Alliance) and the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine held a Capitol Hill briefing today on a recently released supplement to the Journal titled, "Optimizing Home Health Care: Enhanced Value and Improved Outcomes." The supplement compiles articles on...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The issue of health care access has never been more important. To develop industry-focused, innovative solutions to the challenges of creating access, the Health Care Industry Access Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting collaborative action across the health care industry to improve health care access, will host Summit 2013: Beyond Health Reform to Health Care Access: Solving Access Challenges to Achieve Success in...

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, New York City-based Kognito Interactive (www.kognito.com), in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), announced the launch of At-Risk in Primary Care, an online, interactive training simulation developed to prepare New York City's 7,000 primary care providers to screen and manage the treatment of patients with trauma-related mental health disorders. The online training tool is free to all New...

Collaborative effort aims to improve care at lower costs for approximately 157,000 patients in up to 15 health systems and provider organizations nationwide Leawood, KS (PRWEB) January 04, 2013 About 157,000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in up to 15 health systems and provider organizations across the nation will begin participating in a Patient-Centered Medical Neighborhood (PCMN) demonstration project as part of a collaboration among TransforMED, Phytel and VHA Inc. Funded by a...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Overwhelmingly, Americans believe that health services that address mental health illnesses and treatments and addiction services "should be covered and part of any basic private healthcare plan," according to a national online survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies for the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS). A total of 93% agreed (with 57% strongly agreeing). NAPHS commissioned the survey to better...

BOSTON and NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP), a ValueOptions(®) company, recently signed a five-year contract with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide integrated physical and behavioral health programs, management support services and behavioral health specialty services for the MassHealth Primary Care Clinician (PCC) Plan. The new contract started October 1, 2012, and MBHP estimates the annual value of the...

ARLINGTON, Va. and CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health, a program of the American Psychiatric Foundation, and Employers Health, an Ohio-based employer coalition, announced a collaboration to develop a new educational program in the workplace to help decrease stigma associated with depression, which is a leading cause of lost productivity. The depression education program is designed to help motivate employees and their...