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Overwhelmed by increasing demand, rural hospitals and health systems across America struggle with patient care delays, overuse of emergency departments, staff burnout, and reimbursement issues. May is Mental Health Month, and we at CalleoHealth, Ltd. are highlighting the incredible work of improving behavioral healthcare access across rural America. Psychiatric Medical Care the nation's largest behavioral healthcare management company, led by J.R. Greene, FACHE, is at the forefront of this effort. Stephanie Weatherly, DNP, PMH RN-BC, FACHE, PMC’s chief clinical officer, recently shared innovative solutions to overcome barriers in rural communities, addressing issues like provider shortages and mental health stigma. Through four care models—inpatient behavioral health units, intensive outpatient psychiatry programs, and telepsychiatry for EDs and rural health clinics—PMC has achieved reductions in ED visits, recidivism, and polypharmacy, along with positive community and financial outcomes. Take the first step to enhance mental healthcare in your community with the right partner. #MentalHealthMonth #BehavioralHealth #RuralHealthcare #PMC #HealthcareInnovation #MentalHealthAwareness

Prof Melanie Turner on Demystifying Voluntary Assisted Dying (Free Webinar) Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) is now a pathway of health care available in all Australian States and in New Zealand. The laws are similar Australia-wide, but differ slightly in each State, applying to people who have an incurable, advanced and progressive disease, illness or medical condition, and are experiencing intolerable suffering from that. In this webinar, Prof Melanie Turner will disambiguate the facts and myths surrounding VAD, covering key aspects including a summary of each region’s legislation and key differences; how the VAD process works and how people access it; the diverse teams of health-care professionals who provide VAD; what families and clinicians say about being engaged in the VAD process; as well as areas which need further considerations. The psychiatry/psychology view of ethics, neutrality and possible values-clashes, as well as grief and loss are also covered. https://lnkd.in/gH5JtdMP

Exciting news: Talkiatry announces its $130m Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz! 💥 Why does this matter? Over the last 20 years, there’s been a 12% decline in Americans' #mentalhealth (source: Gallup). This funding round empowers Talkiatry to revolutionize mental health care in the #US. With a mission to deliver high-quality, in-network psychiatric care online nationwide, they're ensuring more people can access essential mental health services. At blisce/ we’ve proudly supported the company, leading their Series B round alongside Left Lane Capital. ➡ Our ambition: advance #healthcare innovation by improving access, lowering costs, and driving #ValueBasedCare with cutting-edge tech and quality. 👏 Today, we're particularly pleased to see Talkiatry reach this new milestone to continue proving that outcomes-based, doctor-led mental health care can deliver a superior positive impact for patients. Talkiatry’s model has demonstrated impressive results. Since its launch in 2020, the company has delivered high-quality telepsychiatry services across more than one million patient visits, including underserved populations that previously had little to no access to treatment. This has led to:  🏥 a 68% reduction in hospitalizations, 🚑 32% fewer ER visits, 💸 $700 savings per member per month. Read more about why it matters here 👉 on.wsj.com/3xqrbxN Picture credit: Zayira Ray

🌟 Learning Opportunity – Better Behavioral Care Solutions 🌟 A link to the 'Beyond the Bucket Brigade: Strategies for Behavioral Health Management Across the Continuum of Care' webinar recording hosted by the American Hospital Association featuring Array speakers is now available! Click here to watch: https://lnkd.in/evn9EvqJ Watch to learn more about solutions-oriented approaches to behavioral care that connect patients from hospital to home. Access info on tech-powered avenues for crisis intervention, stabilization, and post-crisis support in acute and outpatient care settings.     Behavioral care doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It takes a collaborative, holistic approach that transcends care silos and barriers. Individual stocks of resources are rarely ever enough to cover the need. Array speakers Jamie Evans, MD, MPH, DABOM; Leroy Arenivar, MD; and Scott Baker, MBA, shared innovations in coordinating care from one setting to another and optimizing care pathways and processes to ensure patients have access to the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. We would love to keep the conversation going with healthcare leaders. Post your questions or comments below. #mentalhealth #healthcareinnovations #hospitalsolutions #behavioralhealth #telepsychiatry

10 years ago Brent King, Jennifer Rucci, and I were on the cusp of launching an organization that was designed from the ground up to deliver integrated, collaborative, whole-person care to the vulnerable residents of long-term care. We were to be one team-physicians, APP's, psychologists, and LCSW's- focused on managing the chronic problems of this special population with a unique emphasis on the power of mental health and primary care working together. A decade later, I am very proud of what Eventus WholeHealth has become. We not only have fulfilled that initial vision, but are delivering industry-leading outcomes that demonstrate the value of having a model of care. True collaboration is not achieved merely by aiming multiple clinicians at a patient. It is achieved through working as a team, in one medical record, with discipline around the special needs of a special population. As we empower staff, clinicians, and leaders to work together; as we implement leading-edge technologies, like AI-facilitated scribing to allow clinicians to focus on their patients and not a computer; as we partner with the amazing long-term care organizations who support the daily needs of their residents through robust communication systems and staff training; as we build amazing support for clinicians to do their work, with remarkable medical assistants and support staff, new analytics to identify opportunities to improve care, and ongoing education to stay current with best practices; I can't wait to see the next 10 years! #eventuswholehealth #valuebasedcare #ltc #longtermcare #future #amazing

Wow. A decade is a long time. A thankfully long time to have enjoyed this journey surrounded by the vision of Brent King and the partnership of Will Sampson. A long time that afforded the opportunity to have developed relationships with Eventus’ many other clinical and administrative leaders. And a long time to have maintained as the premier provider of integrated healthcare in the post acute and long term care populations. And yet it’s a short time. An impressively short time to have accomplished so many things in healthcare, a system that is typically filled with obstacles seemingly designed to slow change to a snail’s pace. Yet in just 10 years Eventus WholeHealth overcame any challenges it faced and has been able to change the way healthcare is delivered to frail and vulnerable patients. We’ve been innovative and creative in our methods, and developed partners externally where goals were aligned. We successfully have proven the original model laid out 10 years ago of proactive chronic care addressing both medical and psychosocial needs in a collaborative way is truly optimal. In this short time we have shown that the Eventus model produces improved individual patient and whole population outcomes at a reduced cost to the patient and system. That is the aim all health interventions are trying to prove. And we’ve already done it! Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the Eventus team members past and present who helped make this happen. We could not have done it without you. Your patients and the patients of this model in the future are measurably benefiting from the work you are doing each day. #longtermcare #healthcareinnovation #valuebasedcare #physicianleadership

Exciting news: Talkiatry announces its $130m Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz! 💥 Why does this matter? Over the last 20 years, there’s been a 12% decline in Americans' #mentalhealth (source: Gallup). This funding round empowers Talkiatry to revolutionize mental health care in the #US. With a mission to deliver high-quality, in-network psychiatric care online nationwide, they're ensuring more people can access essential mental health services. At blisce// we’ve proudly supported the company, leading their Series B round alongside Left Lane Capital. ➡ Our ambition: advance hashtag #healthcare innovation by improving access, lowering costs, and driving #ValueBasedCare with cutting-edge tech and quality. 👏 Today, we're particularly pleased to see Talkiatry reach this new milestone to continue proving that outcomes-based, doctor-led mental health care can deliver a superior positive impact for patients. Talkiatry’s model has demonstrated impressive results. Since its launch in 2020, the company has delivered high-quality telepsychiatry services across more than one million patient visits, including underserved populations that previously had little to no access to treatment. This has led to: 🏥 a 68% reduction in hospitalizations, 🚑 32% fewer ER visits, 💸 $700 savings per member per month. Read more about why it matters here 👉 on.wsj.com/3xqrbxN Picture credit: Zayira Ray

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