American Hospital Association April 26, 2024
Rick Pollack, President and CEO, AHA

Seventy years ago, George Brock Chisholm, M.D., the first director-general of the World Health Organization, famously stated that “without mental health there can be no true physical health.”

Those words continue to ring true today. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it is a time to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma surrounding behavioral health issues. It’s also a time to recognize how mental illness and addiction can affect all of us — patients, providers, families and our society at large.

Hospitals and health systems play an important role in the conversations we have around mental health care, including creating partnerships that address behavioral health issues in nontraditional ways. Many hospitals are creating new innovations around how behavioral...

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