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Increase the Quality of Life for Long-term Care Residents While Decreasing Overall Costs with Tele-psychiatry

Nicole Coniglio, RN, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, ACNP-BC Chief Clinical Officer, MindCare Solutions The US is facing a rapidly growing older population. It’s estimated that in less than two decades, older...

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5 Questions to Ask Your Telepsychiatry Vendor

Telepsychiatry can help hospitals and other care facilities provide better access to mental health services. Recent regulatory changes are quickly removing hurdles for reimbursement and access to telehealth services, allowing...

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Supporting Employees through Increased Access to Mental Health Care

The way we are working isn’t working. Even though an estimated 1 in 5 adults lives with a mental health illness, the stigma around discussing our mental health is still...

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The Mind-Body Connection: How Telebehavioral Health Can Support Chronic Pain Management

Depression, anxiety, and chronic pain are serious problems faced by a significant proportion of society today. Research has now shown that they are also often experienced together. Patients suffering from...

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Increasing Access to Mental Health Care with Mobile Response Units

Mental health crises, like any physical health crisis, can be devastating for patients and families. Sadly, the US consistently falls short when it comes to caring for mental health patients....

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Continued Access to Telepsychiatry is Essential to Our Nation’s Health

Telepsychiatry and telehealth provided an essential service to patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a safe way to deliver and receive care during a time when many hospitals...

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How LCSWs Are Helping to Meet the Growing Need for Telebehavioral Health Services

Living with the stress and uncertainties of COVID-19 has negatively affected many people’s mental health. A survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 41.1% of adults reported symptoms of...

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COVID-19 and the Impact on Children’s Mental Health

As we move into a new year, the impacts of COVID-19 continue with us. No one is immune to the stress of the pandemic. Our daily lives, routines, and in...

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A Year in Review: The Evolving Role of Telepsychiatry

2020 has been an unprecedented year. Providers and patients alike have faced extraordinary losses, both in health, life, and income. While the battle to defeat COVID-19 continues, it has brought...

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Spotlight: An Interview with Dr. Dante Burgos

Dr. Dante Burgos, Chief Physician Executive This year has brought many changes and challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. At MindCare, we strive to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care to our partners...

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Telepsychiatry is helping to address psychiatric shortages around the country

Access to mental health care has been a growing problem. An estimated 40% of patients are seeing their primary care physicians for mental health issues, and two-thirds of them have difficulty accessing...

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Increasing Federally Qualified Health Centers’ Capabilities with Telepsychiatry

As we covered last month, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are essential to rural and underserved populations to help decrease health disparities. They serve as the healthcare safety net for many...

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Improving Mental Health for Medical Professionals with the Well at Work Program

The importance of community health centers is becoming increasingly apparent as COVID-19 continues to spread. Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are essential to rural and underserved populations to help decrease...

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Telepsychiatry Helps Keep Hospitals Open in a Time of Unprecedented Change

Hospitals around the country are facing immense disruptions and unprecedented losses this year. To prepare for possible surges of COVID-19, many hospitals put elective procedures on hold. An estimated 28 million elective...

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Supporting Behavioral Health Hospitals Near and Far

Behavioral health hospitals around the country provide structured care in a therapeutic and safe environment for patients. They play a crucial role in our communities and are an essential resource...

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View From the Front Lines

What extraordinary times we are all traveling through together! Amidst the clouds of a global pandemic, there are a few rays of sunshine that are visible. One such ray is...

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Telepsychiatry Adds New Dimension to PHP/IOP

Partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs, also known as PHP and IOP, provide options for patients who need more support than outpatient care but don’t require the oversight of...

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Provider Spotlight: Yaima Alonso-Jeckell, MD

As a junior in high school, I took a psychology course that led me on this journey to become a psychiatrist. I remember thinking there was nothing that had captivated...

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Provider Spotlight: Elizabeth Ucheoma-Cofield, MD

The journey to become a psychiatrist had a lot of twists and turns for me. After graduating from medical school, I was convinced that I was going to be a...

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Tips for Telepsychiatry During COVID-19

Many psychiatrists are currently facing a rapid conversion of services to a telehealth model during the COVID-19 pandemic, and so we’d like to share some of our industry experience to...

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Provider Spotlight: Michelle DeNault, MD

Michelle DeNault MD, Regional Medical Director Psychiatry wasn’t exactly the most glamorous choice while I was in training… Before I had even decided to become a physician, one of my...

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The Psychological Impact of Coronavirus and Telepsychiatry’s Role in Patient Care

Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has been making headlines worldwide for the past few months. While our understanding of this virus is still incomplete, it does have strong parallels with the 2003...

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3 Things to Consider When Choosing a Telepsychiatry Provider

The growing importance of mental healthcare, along with increasing reimbursement for telehealth services makes 2020 an excellent year to consider adding telepsychiatry to your health system. A specialized version of telehealth, telepsychiatrists...

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Looking Toward the Future: Telepsychiatry in 2020

A new decade is here, and with it comes some promising changes for telepsychiatry. In the coming year, we can expect to see increasing reimbursement with the start of CMS...