While a small number of people account for a disproportionately large portion of health services use, heavy users of mental health care have substantially different patterns of health care use than other heavy users of health …
Category Archives: Mental Health Care
Local health departments key to expanding mental health care in US
Drexel's professors found that of the 505 local health departments they studied, between 30 and 40 percent provided some form of mental health care services. Additionally, those that provided services were found to be seven …
Obama's Executive Action on Guns Changes Privacy Rules …
While President Barack Obama's planned executive action aimed at decreasing gun violence does include a plan for easier access to mental health care, it also calls for doctors to report mentally ill patients to the Federal …
Mille Lacs County board considers costs of mental-health care …
The academy offers treatment for boys ages 10-19 who have significant mental health issues and harmful sexual behaviors. The nonprofit organization Nexus Treatment runs the academy with Mille Lacs as its host county for …
Police Violence Raises Concern Over Access to Mental Health …
Services Are Not Available Where People Need Them. According to WBEZ analysis from June 2015, many of the police districts with the most mental health 911 calls, are also the districts with the fewest mental health services.