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Expert Commentary: Multidisciplinary Hospital Team Proactively Meets With Patients and/... - 0 views

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  • Tom Fields on 25 Jun 12
     
    By establishing programs to help people recover emotionally after unexpected negative events, hospitals can achieve gains in patient satisfaction and in staff retention.
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Hospital Partnership Offers Pathways-Based Case Management Program, Leading to Enhanced... - 0 views

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medical care substance abusers hospital ED LEDC mental condition Federally Qualified Health Centers Mark Redding psychiatric disabilities community living problems anxiety laboratory x-ray medications Penelope Case Management Software Assessment

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    The program also connects patients to other community resources and addresses health, social, and logistical barriers to care. The program significantly enhanced access to appropriate care and improved client understanding of their medical condition, resulting in enhanced health functioning and a significant decline in emergency department use and costs for nonemergent conditions.
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State Agency Promotes Integrated Mental Health and Addiction Treatment for Co-Occurring... - 0 views

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treatment model private centers substance use Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services disorder admission drugs COSIG SAMHSA Dartmouth Medical School Medicaid

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  • Tom Fields on 08 Jun 12
     
    The policies include mandatory screening for both disorders using validated tools, a learning collaborative and evaluations to promote quality improvement, and financial incentives to clinics achieving various service benchmarks. The department also offers training to help providers with various issues related to these policies.
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Support and Services at Home (SASH) Evidence-Based Practices Directory - 0 views

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Community Healthy Aging Plans chronic conditions falls prevention Cathedral Square Corporation frail elderly patient safety mental health

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  • Tom Fields on 30 May 12
     
    This Directory was developed to aid the SASH programs in developing and revising their Community Healthy Aging Plans, a key component of SASH.
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Care Coordination, Peer Support, and Discretionary Fund Improve Quality of Life and Red... - 0 views

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    Offered at no cost to participants, the program has enhanced access to treatment, employment, and job training; reduced suicide and self-harm attempts, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, incarcerations, and homelessness; and significantly lowered health care and other mental illness-related costs.
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Affordable Housing Community Offers Seniors Onsite Health Care Coordination and Support... - 0 views

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    In a year-long pilot test with 65 residents, the program reduced hospital admissions and readmissions, had no bounce backs to nursing homes, decreased falls, improved nutritional status, and increased levels of physical activity.
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Health Plan and Psychiatric Hospitals Reduce Readmissions by Reviewing Data and Develop... - 0 views

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Amerigroup Florida psychiatric hospitals transitions outpatient care readmissions provision discharge implementation impairment treatment admissions behavioral health practitioner substance abuse group therapy injectable medications extensivist rounds com

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  • Tom Fields on 03 May 12
     
    The program significantly reduced overall readmission rates at participating hospitals. Patients involved in specific quality improvement initiatives that came out of the program also experienced significantly fewer readmissions, along with associated declines in inpatient days and costs.
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Mental Health Care Resources - 2 views

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Acute Adjustment Aggression Antidepressive agents Anxiety Attention-deficit_Hyperactivity Bipolar Bulimia nervosa Combat Delirium Dementia maternal postpartum Depressive major Eating Emotional Grief health Mental retardation Mood Obsessive-compulsive Pati

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  • Tom Fields on 24 Apr 12
     
    Large compilation of online resources for mental healthcare professionals, including innovation profiles and tools.
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