Peak View expanding adolescent mental health care
Peak View Behavioral Health will begin treating adolescent patients in a hospital setting starting Jan. 21. The hospital will offer both inpatient and outpatient programs for children ages 12 to 17, and the hospital now has 20 acute beds for inpatient stays and full-day treatment on an outpatient basis. “We know there are adolescents in [...]
In response to recent mass shootings, one of which took place in Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper unveiled an $18.5 million plan to strengthen the state’s mental health services and support system. “For the past five months, in response to the Aurora shooting, we have been working to expand mental health care and services across Colorado,” [...]
Continue reading …Educating more doctors about behavioral health issues, helping people navigate the complex system of care, and aiding people without insurance — those are the three gaps locally in mental health care delivery that will be studied during the next six months. In April, three task forces made up of 100 mental health professionals will make [...]
Continue reading …James Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 at an Aurora movie theater, was seeing a psychiatrist at the time of the July 20 attack. If he’d been in Colorado Springs, chances are he wouldn’t have gotten even that much help. That’s because mental-health experts say healthy communities should have one [...]
Continue reading …The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Colorado ranks above average in suicidal thoughts and behaviors. A report released Thursday says about 4.6 percent of adult Coloradans gave serious thought to suicide in the previous year, compared with the national average of 3.7 percent. The report is the first to look at suicidal thoughts, [...]
Continue reading …At the Ohio Department of Mental Health, Christy Murphy’s days are filled with calls from people seeking help she can’t seem to give. They plead with her, but budget cuts have trimmed services so much that she is not sure where to send them. The desperation on the other end of the line hits painfully [...]
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