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Enhanced CRPA and CHW Training and Workforce Transformation
…and Connect with employers on Staten Island. Community Health Worker (CHW) Certificate Training Program: SI PPS and CSI developed a new Community Health Worker certificate training program which has four…
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Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in Program, Payment, and Policy: Extrapolating the Triple Aim for Population Health
…New Yorkers receiving Medicaid. However, significant investments should still be made in order to achieve integration of whole-health priorities at the community level. For example, commitments by Department of Health…
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Will We Need a Separate Mental Health System in the Future?
…leadership roles with the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the Joint Commission, the National Institute of Mental Health’s National Advisory Mental Health Council, and the National Association of…
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10 Tips to Ease COVID “Re-Entry Anxiety”
…While it is important to stay informed, when it comes to anxiety too much information can be a bad thing. Give yourself some “screen free” time each day and you…
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Understanding Co-Occurring Disorders
…health or substance use disorder. Once a person has screened positive, it is important to complete a comprehensive assessment. Co-occurring disorders are not monolithic. Someone at a substance use disorder…
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Are Psychiatric Disorders Over-diagnosed in Children? Are Medicines Over-prescribed? 13 Myths & Facts
Headlines scream that too many kids are taking Ritalin or Adderall or whatever the latest ADHD medicine du jour is. TV’s talking heads complain that we’re drugging our kids with…
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Overdose Deaths Involving Buprenorphine Did Not Proportionally Increase With New Flexibilities in Prescribing
…These updated policies allowed clinicians to remotely prescribe buprenorphine to new patients without conducting in-person examinations, expanded payment for telehealth services, and provided flexibility on accepted communication technologies to deliver…
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Chronic Pain, Quality of Life, and Suicidal Behavior
…heightens risk. Van Orden et al. (2010) conceptualized the idea that a sense of liability could be a key component of suicidal capacity. They compared this to thinking that “my…
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Another Call for Quality Improvement
Twelve years ago, Dr. Anthony Weiss and I presented a paper to the Healthcare Division of the American Society for Quality. We made a call for quality improvement in behavioral…
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Health Education Class in the Workplace
As a native New Yorker, playing co-ed softball in Central Park is simply a rite of passage. A few years ago as I was preparing to bat, a small boy…
