Healthcare Finance News September 22, 2022
Despite progress among adults, suicide attempts are spiking among adolescents.
CVS Health has been working toward the goal of reducing suicide attempts by Aetna members by 20% by 2025, and today announced progress toward that end, seeing a 15.7% reduction in suicide attempts among Aetna members through March 2022 compared to 2019 baselines.
In 2017, Aetna, a CVS Health company, initiated its support for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s goal to reduce the suicide rate 20% by the year 2025, as part of AFSP’s Project 2025 initiative. Inspired by this initiative, CVS Health launched its own goal to reduce suicide attempts by 20% among Aetna members by that same year.
Progress has been made on this front, the numbers...
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