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Employee Wellness: Meeting the Challenge of the Workplace
…competing pressures, burnout and compassion fatigue are ever present concerns in today’s workplace. Burnout and compassion fatigue can have serious implications for the health and wellbeing of our workforce, budgets,…
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The Challenges of Integrated Health Care
…for individuals to make and keep medical appointments. Often compounded with this is that these individuals do have real struggles to meet basic needs and thus medical care falls low…
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The Importance of Self-Care and Staff Care for Mental Health Professionals
…Learning to recognize these complex symptoms of compassion fatigue can prove priceless: A persistent feeling of sadness, anxiety, or emotional emptiness Constant sensations of hopelessness, pessimism, or helplessness Problems concentrating,…
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Two New York Behavioral Health IPAs Merge
…insufficient mental health services available. When leadership of the two organizations recognized the extent to which their networks were compatible, and the almost complete overlap in their service geographies, they…
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From Neighboring Institutions to Collaborators: A Joint Effort to Improve Integrated Care
…adults with serious mental illness (SMI) – whose high rates of medical comorbidities and excess mortality disproportionately drive health care expenditures – show that over 60% of subjects had difficulty…
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Treatment and Housing: A Seamless Service Model for High Need Populations
…a transitional community residence or scattered site permanent apartments for 150 individuals and families who complete treatment. We count ourselves fortunate to be supported by our partners in OASAS whose…
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Our Economyβs Effect on New York Stateβs Mental Health Budget
…cavalierly bandied about as ways of describing where our economy presently stands. With unemployment rates reaching levels not seen in the past 30 years our present circumstance has been compared…
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Shame and Hunger: Breaking the Stigma Through Lived Experiences
…assistance in-person at local food pantries and other charitable organizations while providing insight into the challenges being faced within our communities. For example, one Full Cart Applicant shared: “The first…
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Mental Health Services and Opioid Use and Dependence: A Non-Sequitur?
…rates of opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD) in patients seen in the community-based, non-profits in NYS providing mental health services. Among Medicaid insured adults about one in three…
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Suffering Across Settings: Multidimensional Care for Chronic Pain
…(MCOs) that manage Pennsylvania’s Community HealthChoices program. Plan medical directors provide behavioral health case consultation for UPMC’s Community HealthChoices service coordinators to support individuals with complex physical and behavioral health…
