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NEW: EDITION 2.1

»White Paper:

“Design Guide for the Built Environment of Behavioral Health Facilities: Edition 2.1 ” by David M. Sine, ARM, CSP, CPHRM, and James M. Hunt, AIA

Training for behavioral health staffs:

» Compact Disc:

"JOINT COMMISSION EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR 2008: Using an All-Hazards Approach in Behavioral Health"

» 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:

RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION:

Implementing the CMS Final Rule on the Hospital Patients' Rights Condition of Particiaption

» Compact Disc:

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

» Compact Disc:

"Getting Paid for Inpatient Psychiatric Medicare Days: Complying with Local Coverage Determinations"

»Compact Disc:

"Managing Risk in Behavioral Health Care"

»Audiotape: "Ask-the-Experts About Staffing within Behavioral Health Inpatient Programs"

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

Hay Group Study on the erosion of behavioral healthcare benefits.

At the April 2008 NAPHS Annual Meeting Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) (left) receives an award from NAPHS President Jeff Borenstein, M.D. (center), of Holliswood Hospital, and APA Past President Steven Sharfstein, M.D. (right), of Sheppard Pratt Health System. View photos from this event, which celebrated the association's 75 years of service (1933-2008).

And hold March 16-18 for the 2009 Annual Meeting!

Recent News
  May 2007: Get the latest 2006 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.
 

 

Survey on Education Services in Residential Placements. One of the first surveys of its kind, this report provides a snapshot from a moment in time of the characteristics of students receiving special education services within psychiatric residential treatment programs and of the services themselves. It also describes challenges and recommendations.

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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. The importance of being able to identify "peer groupings" was among a host of issues on the agenda as this NAPHS committee held its second Leadership Forum in Chicago in October 2007. Read more.

 
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Inpatient psychiatric prospective payment has come to Medicare. Get background on the final rule (published in the November 15, 2004, Federal Register) and recent clarifications.
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