Emergency Room visits are spiking as families seek treatment for a wide range of mental health conditions. Rising at a startling rate, hospitals around the state are seeing a rapid increase in children needing behavioral health treatment. Depression and anxiety have become prevalent...
All hospitals, secular and Catholic, receive liberal annual grants from the State. Several orphan asylums are supported by the charity of non-Catholics, while the St. Francis Asylum, located in New Haven, provides for the needs of the Catholic population. County houses for dependent children who...
EMERGENCY services in psychiatric hospitalsDUAL diagnosisRETROSPECTIVE studiesFrequent utilizers of emergency services represent a clinically important cohort with potentially unmet health care needs despite demanding a high volume of costly services. However, not much is known about their longitudinal course....
The law also amends the state’s electronic prescription drug monitoring program to require pharmacies, nonresident pharmacies, outpatient pharmacies in hospitals and institutions and dispensers to report to the Department of Consumer Protection the emergency diabetes drugs and devices they prescribe and ...
Living with mental illness can feel like a relentless battle, draining your energy and making hope seem distant. You might feel trapped, alone in a world that doesn’t understand your pain. But even in the darkest moments, change is possible. Imagine feeling in control, your heart lighter, ...
Results Mental health expenditure increased 30% in real terms, with an 87% growth in community expenditures, a 38% increase in general hospitals and a 29% decrease in psychiatric hospitals. The growth in private psychiatry, averaging 6% annually prior to 1992, was reversed. Consumer and carer ...
Connecticut Department of Public Health Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Plan “Be First. Be Right. Be Credible.” January 2006 Revised May 2012
This section of the Act is effective October 1, 2023. Deadlines for Medical Records Requests Another new provision in the Act establishes deadlines that Connecticut-licensed health care institutions (e.g., hospitals) must meet when a patient or a patient’s representative requests electron...
Mental healthPublic health Animal-assisted therapy in Connecticut hospitals SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY Debra Risisky RitchieJessicaAnimal-assisted therapy has been shown to be advantageous for many populations. This study assessed the knowledge levels and attitudes of health care administrators ...