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»Teleconference:

March 18 and 24

2pm-4pm Eastern (each day)

"Mental Health Parity Implementation: New Regulations Explained by the Nation's Leading Analysts and Experts"

EDITION 3.0

»White Paper:

“Design Guide for the Built Environment of Behavioral Health Facilities: Edition 3.0 ” by David M. Sine, ARM, CSP, CPHRM, and James M. Hunt, AIA, NCARB

Training for behavioral health staffs:

»Compact Disc:

"Emergency Preparedness: Lessons Learned by Behavioral Healthcare Organizations That Have Survived Disasters"

»Compact Disc:

"Recovery Audit Contractors: What Beahvioral Health Needs to Know"

»Compact Disc:

"Managing Today's Challenging Behavioral Health Inpatient Treatment Demands"

»Compact Disc:

“Safety and the Built Environment: Helping Behavioral Healthcare Organizations Stay Up to the Minute"

»Compact Disc:

4 hours total:

“Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS) CORE MEASURES: Implementation Strategies for an October 2008 Launch

» Compact Disc:

"SMOKING CESSATION: Policies & Clinical Consideration

»Compact Disc and Resource Guide:

"SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT: Responding to the 2007 JCAHO Patient Safety Goal

» Compact Disc:

BUILDING FOR TOMORROW: Creating a Patient-Centered Built Environment in Behavioral Healthcare Facilities -- (four hours of training )

Fact sheet on the benefits/ role of behavioral health within general health.

Hay Group Study on the erosion of behavioral healthcare benefits.

NOTEWORTHY: NAPHS 75th Anniversary (1933-2008)

The 2010 Annual Meeting in DC brought together Sr. Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association, youth services leader Laurie Flynn of Columbia University, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Director Carolyn Clancy, M.D., HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation Richard Frank, Ph.D., Mike Bromberg of the Capitol Health Group, and more. Check back soon for photos and highlights of the meeting.
Recent News

 

 
 

MENTAL HEALTH

PARITY is a WIN

for AMERICA!  Regulations published.

     
  March 2009: Get the latest 2008 NAPHS Annual Survey. The NAPHS database has become recognized as the nation's most comprehensive on behavioral health systems. Download the table of contents and an order form.
 
 

Summer 2008: Characteristics of Residential Treatment for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances.  A report from Abt Associates prepared for the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) and the National Association for Children's Behavioral Health (NACBH)

 
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Quality Initiatives. Learn about the wide variety of NAPHS initiatives and resources directed at quality issues, including performance measurement, safety, improving the built environment for behavioral health facilities, suicide prevention, information technology, and more. Learn more.

 

Success Stories and Ideas for Reducing Restraint/Seclusion. 

 

Also see Guiding Principles on Restraint and Seclusion.
Medicaid and Youth. NAPHS has teamed with the National Association for Children's Behavioral Health to tell Congress that Medicaid dollars spent on children & youth with emotional and substance use disorders pay long-term dividends. The two associations also have released Principles for Treatment of Children and Youth with Emotional and Substance Use Disorders. Learn more.

Committee on Behavioral Health Services within General Healthcare Systems.  Emergency department backlogs, safety, violence, innovations, and the impact of the economy and reform on behavioral health were among a host of issues on the agenda as this NAPHS committee held its fourth Leadership Forum in New York in October 2009.

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