Quality Improvement

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Quality Standards for Virtual Therapy Needed More than Ever
While the national conversation on mental health and addiction treatment remains focused on expanding access, an equal focus on ensuring those services are delivered with high quality is needed.
Four Keys to Improving Quality of Care
Addiction treatment providers who want to improve their quality of care can make strides by focusing in on four specific areas, Siobhan Morse, MHSA, CRC, CAI, MAC, told attendees at a recent webinar presented by the Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Learning Network.
Campus Conundrum: How Providers Can Break Down Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Minority Students
With 80% of college students reporting that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted their mental health and students of color twice being as likely to not seek treatment, Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, PhD, of Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital, explains how provider organizations can break down barriers.
AAAP Receives SAMHSA Grant to Extend, Expand Opioid Response Network
The American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry announced that it has received a two-year, $32 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to address opioid and stimulant use disorders through the continuation and expansion of its national education and training network.
Strategic Approach to Care Coordination Drives Better Outcomes in ER
While coordinating care for patients with mental health disorders is critical, it is often challenging—or even overlooked—in the complex U.S. healthcare system. Evidence-based care transition models can significantly improve outcomes, especially in emergency department settings.
Mental Healthcare Providers Can Play a Role in Reducing Racism
What is our role in mental healthcare in this ongoing and unprecedented national crisis? Here are seven ways we can make a difference.
Behavioral Health as an Agent of Change, Part III: Primary Care Redesign
Psychosocial factors are clearly important in determining health status and driving primary care visits. If we are prepared, the primacy of behavior change in health improvement could place our field on the frontlines of healthcare delivery.
Behavioral Health as an Agent of Change, Part II: Improved Health
A focus on health obliges professionals to address wellness and wellbeing. While the focus may exist outside the bounds of the diagnostic manuals, professional attention is warranted.
Behavioral Health as an Agent of Change, Part I: Preventable Costs
As the healthcare sector grows to 18% of the gross domestic product (GDP) with no reversal in sight, demands for change are increasingly dire. For starters, how can behavioral healthcare help solve the dilemma of healthcare costs?
Outcomes Panel: Plenty of Signs of Hope for More Effective Evaluation
An NCAD East panel suggested that the addiction treatment community may be turning the corner on outcome evaluation that has historically stymied the field's progress.
FDA picks eight medical device firms to help battle opioid crisis
Eight medical device makers, including a startup that uses virtual reality to treat chronic pain, topped an innovation contest aimed at addressing the opioid crisis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said last week.
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