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From Classroom to Clinic: Massachusetts and mental health parity

From Classroom to Clinic: Massachusetts and mental health parity
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Taking a closer look into the pandemic and mental health issues

Wicked Local Editor s note: In the second part of this series, we continue to take a closer look at how mental health issues have increased during the pandemic with a particular look at children and adolescents. Although remote and hybrid learning among school-aged children has helped reduce the spread of COVID-19, it has come with an adverse effect. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), during the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts has seen a significant increase in people - many of them children and adolescents - seeking emergency psychiatric care, including inpatient treatment. Dr. Eric Meikle, head of pediatrics at Lowell General Hospital, said for children, the hybrid and remote schooling formats have reduced risk of coronavirus spread, but increased a sense of isolation.

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When a psych bed search proves difficult, these patients have a partner

By Roger Rapoport Jan. 8, 2021Reprints Mike Reddy for STAT Hallie-Beth Hollister is a master at cold calling. She has to be. She and a small team of psychiatric bed searchers are responsible for calling hospitals across Massachusetts any time a patient is in need of an inpatient psychiatric bed. At any given moment, 20 to 60 mental health patients are temporarily being cared for in one of the five hospital emergency departments covered by Behavioral Health Network, the Western Massachusetts-based emergency service provider where Hollister works. In complex cases, these searches have taken up to six weeks. But unlike most health systems across the country, her team has a special tool to speed up that search: a dedicated, state-funded system to back them up. Massachusetts is home to a novel effort known as the Expedited Psychiatric Inpatient Admissions, or EPIA. Created in 2018 by the state’s mental health department, it is designed to cut the red tape to get psychiatric patients

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