[...] we must move away from a crisis-based system that leaves our jails and our emergency rooms as de facto mental health providers. According to the Legislative Budget Board, community mental health services cost about $12 per day per patient, as opposed to the $137 per day to keep ...
and HOUSTON, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Charlie Health, the leading provider of virtual high-acuity mental health care for young people, and Memorial Hermann Health System are collaborating to improve access to outpatient mental health treatment programs fo...
Jonathan Tessier had little reason to complain of late. Profit margins were rising, his customer base was expanding, and the recent annual health inspection had wrapped up swimmingly with no findings. After years of fatiguing work and plowing through stress, things were supposed to be looking up...
Disaster mental health can feel very chaotic if you are used to a practice in which clients come at appointed times to your office, sit down and talk for 50 minutes, and leave. You may be on your feet for 12 hours at a time. (There were days at when I was in Houston doing disaste...
However, few empirical inquiries have sought to examine the pandemic's effect on mental health and wellbeing by analyzing calls for service (CFS) involving emotionally disturbed persons (EDP). This study examines CFS received pre- and post-pandemic by Houston's crisis intervention team (CIT). ...