Nearly half of Americans live in an area without adequate mental health services. More than 85% of these so-called Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas are located in rural communities. This ...

Tens of millions of adults in the U.S. suffer from depression and anxiety. Yet the barriers to entry in mental health care—including holes in insurance coverage, a shortage of behavioral health ...

Collaborative care integrates mental health support into a patient's primary care provider's office. The program is ...

A new study based on data from more than 7,000 patients found collaborative care models in hospitals are tied to shorter hospital stays and other improved outcomes. Researchers say it is the first ...

Explore how the Collaborative Care Model enhances mental health access in this episode featuring Anna Bobb, MPH, executive director of the Path Forward coalition. A recent national analysis ...

To improve patient depression outcomes, therapeutic treatment strategy should be intensified and receive more resources. Components of collaborative care that most efficaciously reduce depressive ...

For many years, primary care providers had no direct or explicit mechanism to be reimbursed for services specifically provided to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries under the collaborative care model ...

Existing conventional treatments and the current model of care do not adequately address the complex challenges of mental illness Available conventional treatments and the dominant model of mental ...

Physician leadership is ideal in collaborative care teams, this CMO says. At Northwell Health, clinical teams function most effectively when they are physician-led, with multidisciplinary team members ...

Suicide rates in the United States increased approximately 36% between 2000 and 2022, according to updated data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Suicide was responsible for just under ...