Addressing the Lack of Continuity of Care in Mental Health Services

NEJM July 18, 2019
Kimberly Dennis, MD, David Newton, MBA & Namita Seth Mohta, MD

Namita Seth Mohta: This is Namita Mohta for NEJM Catalyst. I’m speaking today with Dr. Kimberly Dennis, CEO, and David Newton, Director of Operations, at SunCloud Health, an integrative, outpatient treatment center for mental health and addiction located in Illinois. Let’s start, Kim, by understanding the landscape. First, people often use the terms “mental health,” “mental illness,” “behavioral health,” “psychiatric illness,” “addiction disorders,” and “substance use disorders” interchangeably and inconsistently. How do you define these terms and their relationship to each other?

Kimberly Dennis: One of the biggest issues around treating people with a high quality of care who have diseases that impact their brains and therefore their behaviors is the terminology we use to describe those diseases. In the...

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