Reports the publication of a list of regions, population groups and facilities in the United States designated as mental health professional shortage areas as of June 15, 1995. Eligibility of designated areas for training grants and increases in levels of Medicaid and medicare reimbursement; Contact ...
Many liberals blame Ronald Reagan for the government’s abandonment of mentally ill Americans. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a landmark bill for patients’ rights, but then cut funding for mental-health care. As president in 1981, he rescinded federal funds for state mental-...
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health by examining the age-adjusted percentage of adults in each state who reported poor mental health in at least 14 of the last 30 days, based on survey data available through the centers for disease control and prevention . a lower percentage translates to a better mental health ranking....
Biden administration plans to ramp up mental health services to aid millions of Americans struggling from the disruptions, hardships and grief of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation's top federal health official says, but needs more money from Congress to do "transformative work on mental health....
The US federal government has issued a final rule on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, a move that officials hope will ensure equal benefits for those suffering from mental illness. Issued jointly by the Department of Health and Human Sevices, the Department of Labor,...
Federal health officials have declined to approve the psychedelic drug MDMA as a therapy for PTSD. Drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics announced the FDA’s decision on Friday. August 10 High schoolers’ mental health shows small improvement in a US government survey A government survey shows small sign...
To date, only a small number of government and peer-reviewed studies have examined the mental health of federal offenders. Although these studies provide isolated bits of information they have yet to be organized into a coherent body of knowledge from which clinicians, administrators and policy make...
“Mental health is linked to physical health, and the way to address those best is to address the Canada Health Transfer,” he said. All province and territories have come together to demand the federal government to immediately grow its share of overall health-care costs from 22 to 35 per...
"The federal government has been working on rolling a new crisis response system across the country — starting with a new number, 988, that people all over the country can now call when they or a loved one are experiencing a mental health crisis or emergency," Unützer added. "But we ...