Becker's Healthcare January 15, 2025
Care New England Health System always and continually strove to provide an efficient, full continuum of behavioral health services across its organization. However, the heightened, pandemic-driven rise in demand truly underscored the critical need for full-spectrum behavioral health access.
To meet this rising demand, the Providence, R.I.-based health system, which includes Women & Infants Hospital, Kent Hospital and Butler Hospital, a private, nonprofit psychiatric and substance abuse hospital, took a number of steps to expand access and reduce strain on emergency departments.
“For us, since the pandemic, quite frankly, our primary focus has been on access, and I think we’ve done some really interesting work here that we continue to refine and focus on,” Mary Marran, chief administrative officer for...