Behavioral Health Business August 15, 2022
Magnified by visitation restrictions and other challenges, seniors had some of the highest rates of behavioral health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. And while the public health emergency has become more manageable, many of those difficulties continue.
Yet seniors often don’t have access to behavioral health care, particularly those in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
This could be changing, though, with new federal funding and providers’ efforts to improve behavioral health care for SNF occupants. Specifically, an increasing number of organizations are integrating mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) care into their long-term care facilities.
Catholic Care Center is one such operator.
“There’s always been a strong need, but as we see the baby boomer population [aging], it’s growing even...
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