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Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: The Time is Now
Unparalleled workforce shortages, negative margins and increasing labor expenses are creating multiple challenges for hospitals and health systems — but integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.
AHA Associate Podcast Series: Special Episode | Iris Telehealth
Hospitals and health systems are often the first-line responders and conduits to care for behavioral health conditions — which affect one in five Americans — but facilities across the country are struggling to keep up with demand and provide timely access to quality care. Patients and providers are at risk. In this podcast episode, Dan Ferris, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer of Iris Telehealth, will discuss these challenges and how Iris Telehealth is helping advance health system behavioral health service lines across the continuum to drive scalable and sustainable financial and clinical outcomes.
Business Intelligence Report | Digital Acceleration Drives Care Delivery Shifts
Hospitals and health systems rapidly expanded the use of digital technology as the pandemic rolled on in 2021. Telehealth visits, including phone and video consultations, soared as millions of patients opted for virtual care. Remote patient monitoring also grew sharply as provider organizations worked to deliver more personalized, connected care. These and other expanded uses of digital solutions are expected to continue once the pandemic subsides. Use the information in this report as you prepare for engaging hospitals and health systems.
Section 1 - Supporting the Team | Strengthening the Health Care Workforce
The first section of the guide, which includes key considerations and questions to drive action, takeaways and action items for CEOs, and resources and case studies, focuses on addressing well-being, supporting behavioral health and workplace violence prevention.
Prioritizing and Maximizing Well-Being in the Health Care Workforce
Faced with severe workforce shortages and staff burnout, health leaders are looking at ways to engage employees and improve well-being and health.
Supporting Behavioral Health | Strengthening the Health Care Workforce
Reducing stigma and improving access to behavioral health services for the health care workforce, combined with fostering human resilience can improve mental and often physical health, reduce the total cost of care, reduce suicide, and support a healthy workforce.
Workplace Violence Prevention | Strengthening the Health Care Workforce
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health system teams experienced violence, from bullying and incivility to active shooters, intimate partner violence, cyberattacks, homicides and suicides. However, the compounding trauma of the pandemic has heightened the need to create a safer workplace, both physically and psychologically, and a more resilient workforce.
Study: Disparities in access to in-network behavioral health care pervasive
Patients went out-of-network 3.5 times more often to see a behavioral health clinician than a medical/surgical clinician in 2021, and up to 20 times more often for certain behavioral health visits, according to a new study by RTI International.
On the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic: Engaging the Community and Physicians
Presentation Resource
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has developed a Comprehensive Opioid Response with the 12 steps as a solution to treating people with opioid addiction, which engages and activates community resources, providers, physicians, families, and the patient for optimal outcomes. Learn how they engaged physicians as a part of treatment, prevention, and pain management to reduce risk of developing Opioid Use Disorder.
Boardroom Brief: How Boards Can Support Workforce Behavioral Health
This document, developed by AHA Trustee Services and AHA’s Behavioral Health teams, intends to educate and raise awareness for trustees about suicide prevention and the role that hospital and health system boards can play in this very important public health issue.