Behavioral Health Care: How Far We’ve Come in 15 Years

• By: Linda Rosenberg, MSW National Council for Behavioral Health
• July 1st, 2019
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Fifteen years goes by in the blink of an eye. This summer I’m stepping down after 15 years as president and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health, which is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary. This is a good time to take stock of where we have been as a field and where we are...

Building the Amazon Prime Experience in Health Care

• By: Linda Rosenberg, MSW National Council for Behavioral Health
• October 1st, 2015
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Mike Hogan, former Mental Health Commissioner of New York, predicts that in 45 years, distinct public mental health systems with state-operated and state-funded specialty services will no longer exist in their current form. He says, “Almost all the new service models unleashed by the Affordable...

No More Flying Solo: Why Integration Works

• By: Linda Rosenberg, MSW National Council for Behavioral Health
• October 1st, 2011
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This will be the ninth time you’ve visited your primary care doctor in three months. Your arm rests on the chair, and you wonder why your fatigue has not subsided despite different treatments she has tried with you. You considered seeking out a second opinion, but you stopped yourself since...