How Keeping Psych Records Too Private Can Hurt Patient Care
... Keeping Psych Records Too Private Can Hurt Patient Care But in a study published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics, researchers found that hospitals that both use electronic psychiatric records and allow them to be shared with other doctors have a 32% to 39% lower rate of readmission … Read more on TIME Report: Mental health care system fragmented, inadequate Private insurers limit how long psychiatric patients can stay in hospitals, leading to relapses and emergency room visits. The decrease in state-operated beds for adults and residential care beds for children leads to an "extreme burden" on emergency … Read more on The Connecticut Mirror Read ...
Lady Gaga Announces Free Counseling Services for Fans on Born This Way Tour
by Murfomurf Lady Gaga Announces Free Counseling Services For Fans On Born This Way Tour 12:47 pm, December 29th, 2012. (GettyImages.com). Lady Gaga will provide free counseling and mental health services to fans before her shows when the Born This Way Ball resumes touring in 2013. Gaga, whose social outreach has included exposing her … Read more on GossipCop Mental health fight: Mobile County probate judge, health agency tangle over … All three men have something in common, according to Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis: They had been under orders to receive outpatient mental health treatment. Davis said the county's mental health agency, now called AltaPointe Health Systems, … Read more on al.com (blog) Read more... ...
Video-Overcoming Depression Through Self Help Motivation
Video-Overcoming Depression Through Self Help Motivation – www.selfhelp-motivation.net Overcoming Depression Through Self Help Motivation For someone suffering from depression, just facing the day can be an uphill struggle and their are different forms of medication and therapies that can have beneficial effects for those who suffer from it. However, this article puts forward methods that the sufferer can implement themselves and should in no way be seen as medical advice. If you believe you are suffering from depression, please consult your doctor if you haven’t already done so. Read more... ...
Agency Cuts Waiting Time for Mental Health Care
by Murfomurf Agency cuts waiting time for mental health care For five years before it began changing operating procedures in March, Journey Mental Health Center maintained long waiting lists for addicts and young people seeking mental health care, and simply wouldn't accept new adults for mental health treatment … Read more on 77Square.com Slow progress in mental health service as tide goes out on Victorian-era hospitals These teams are supposed to offer a range of treatment options, such as talk therapy, that promote a recovery-based approach to mental ill-health, replacing an increasingly outmoded and heavily medicalised approach. But, seven years after A Vision for … Read more on Irish Times Read ...
Why Are the Conditions in Most Mental Hospitals Awful?
Question by Jack: Why are the conditions in most mental hospitals awful? Some are even dangerous e.g. patients can often be at risk from other patients. And I’m not even talking about the ones that use electric shock “treatment”. My question is how are mental hospitals actually supposed to HELP patients? I would think that feeling unsafe and being around people that scream and bang their heads off walls and stuff would make anyone’s mental problem 10 times worse? Best answer: Read more... ...
Mental Health Treatment Center 52020068(Modify).wmv
... Health Treatment Center 52020068(Modify).wmv – by K e v i n Colorado mental health plan needed If approved by the Legislature, the plan would establish a statewide crisis hotline and five 24-hour urgent mental health care and substance abuse centers. It also calls for stronger coordination between state government departments to see that … Read more on Longmont Daily Times-Call Editorial: Mental health looms large in gun debate All of these factors combine for a necessary, more meaningful approach to this barrage of violence – which would be to revisit the issue of mental health treatment, including increased ability to involuntarily commit an individual. Consider that in … ...
Inpatient Psychiatric Pavilion Opens in Glen Oaks
... psychiatric pavilion opens in Glen Oaks The new pavilion will consolidate the outdated living quarters spread throughout the psychiatric facility's campus, upgrading both the coordination of services and treatment, North Shore-LIJ said. Administrators from both the Zucker Hillside Hospital … Read more on TimesLedger There's never been a better time to talk about mental health care All they receive is either a prescription with no real psychiatric care or a six-to-24-hour wait in the crowded, noisy ER while social services attempts to find them placement in the packed inpatient psychiatric units. What's worse is many more end up … Read more on Elgin Courier News Read ...