American Hospital Association May 19, 2023
After three years of caring on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic, health care providers are confronting a landscape deeply altered by its effects, including the emergence of behavioral health care as an even greater challenge.
While behavioral health care has long been underfunded, underappreciated and stigmatized, the pandemic intensified the unmet need for services and heightened difficulties for individuals with behavioral health conditions in accessing care.
We know that behavioral health is linked to a patient’s physical health. We also know that both behavioral and physical health conditions are present in many hospitalized patients.
To address this growing challenge, hospitals and health systems around the country are creating new innovations around how behavioral health disorders are identified and...