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Rural Behavioral Health
The AHA supports its members as they strive to provide high quality, accessible behavioral health services in America’s rural communities.
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital Opens New Autism Clinic
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has opened a new Applied Behavior Analysis Clinic in Riverton, Utah, that aims to address the growing need for autism services in the community.
Implementing Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM)
The AHA has partnered with the FBI’s Behavior Analysis Unit-1 to co-develop resources to prevent targeted violence in health care settings.
Older Adult Behavioral Health
With approximately 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, older adults’ behavioral health is an area of significant concern — particularly when you consider that chronic conditions common in older adults such as diabetes, stroke, hearing loss or heart disease can put them at greater risk of depression and anxiety.
HHS announces behavioral health program to assist homeless individuals
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced a new behavioral health
Peer Support Issue Brief
Hospitals and health systems are enhancing the way they deliver care to improve patient care and outcomes, prepare for the future and strengthen sustainability. One key driver to transforming care is expanding the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout. Peer Support Specialists (PSS) can play an impactful role in helping hospitals and health systems achieve these goals. PSS are people with lived experience, living in recovery from psychiatric and/or substance use disorders, who provide non-clinical, strengths-based support to others seeking individualized recovery guidance.
Robots, dogs and Legos help kids cope during hospital visits
Robin — an interactive, human-assisted robot — is an innovative tool that’s helping make hospital visits less stressful for pediatric patients at the UMass Memorial Medical Center – Children’s Medical Center.
Expanding Community Coalitions to Improve Mental Health Access and Engagement
Webinar diving into approaches for building and nurturing communitywide coalitions to improve mental health access.
Study finds depression, anxiety raise risk of adverse cardiac event
Depression and anxiety can increase the risk of a major adverse cardiac event, according to an American Heart Association study published Dec. 17.
Researchers uncover possible new biomarker for psychosis diagnosis
Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester in New York are investigating a potential biomarker in the brain that could diagnose psychosis before symptoms appear.