Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2025
Behavioral health remains a critical need nationwide, yet organizations continue to face tight margins, workforce shortages and policy hurdles.
At the 2025 Becker’s Healthcare Behavioral Health Summit, leaders from Allina Health and Iris Telehealth shared how a strategic telepsychiatry partnership helped the Minnesota-based system close access gaps and scale mental health care.
Here are four key takeaways from the session:
- From bottleneck to blueprint
Allina Health faced mounting psychiatric workforce shortages and emergency department boarding issues, prompting a 2018 request for proposal to find a telepsychiatry partner.
Iris provided on-demand emergency department psychiatric consults, eventually expanding to inpatient units, partial hospitalization programs and medical-surgical floors.
“The value with this partnership is the ability to help us grow while we...
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