Even after I left network news, I remained interested in telling stories. And I kept coming back around to one story in particular– football concussions. I’d had a couple myself (see my concussions) and had talked about that with some former pro players who were about my age. I was doing ok but they told me about health problems they had that they believed stemmed from all the hard hits to the head they’d taken during their playing days. [...]
SCREEN TIME: How Telemental Health Is Helping Underserved Veterans, Reducing Hospitalizations For Mental Illness Last year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans to hire an additional 1,600 mental health professionals in an effort to provide better care to veterans waiting too long for mental health services. The announcement came just days before the VA’s own inspector general issued a sharply critical report on the department’s record of delivering timely mental health evaluations and treatment. Click here to read [...]
My personal interest in health services for America’s veterans comes by way of my father, Vic Phillips, who experienced first hand the consequences of delayed medical treatment.
I had never heard of telemental health until I read an article about Dr. Linda Godleski in Medicine@Yale, a Yale School of Medicine publication that spotlights innovation in biomedical science, education and health care. Dr. Godleski, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Medical School, was featured for having won the David M. Worthen Award for her outstanding work with the VA. The article said: “Telemental health medicine has proved to be an efficient and economic method of providing behavioral [...]
The website of the VA’s National Center for PTSD has useful information about the illness and about TeleMental treatment. http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/ptsd-telemental.asp
Published on April 1, 2012 in Psychiatric Services (American Psychiatric Association), this report is the largest study ever conducted on hospitalization rates for patients receiving telemental health care. The impressive findings could lead to…
http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-12-00900-168.pdf
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