Patient Engagement February 21, 2018
Fifty-one percent of healthcare professionals said their organization’s patient access to care is inadequate for mental health patients.
Mental and behavioral healthcare options are currently too fragmented to facilitate easy patient access to care, according to a survey of healthcare industry leaders in a recent NEJM Catalyst Insights Council report.
The US healthcare industry has traditionally dealt with mental and behavioral health needs separately from physical health needs, a system that has proven ineffective, according to Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence St. Joseph Health and theme leader for NEJM Catalyst’s Care Redesign sector.
“In the US, historically we have separated out mental and behavioral illnesses from physical illness,” Compton-Phillips said in a statement....
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