behavioral health
How Washington state is treating housing as health care
This story first appeared in the Washington State Standard. Washington state is trying something new when it comes to housing: treating it as health care. Apple Health and Homes is a multi-agency state program launched last year that focuses on providing housing to people with health and behavioral health challenges. What’s unique is that the […]
Mental health respite facilities are filling care gaps in more than a dozen states
Aimee Quicke has made repeated trips to emergency rooms, hospitals, behavioral health facilities and psychiatric lockdowns for mental health crises — including suicidal thoughts — since she was 11. The 40-year-old resident of Le Mars, Iowa, has bipolar and obsessive-compulsive disorders. “Some of the visits were helpful and some were not,” she said. “It was […]
‘Truly a crisis’: Missouri hospitals house children in foster care with no place to go
On an early June day, five foster children were being housed by SSM Health at hospitals in the St. Louis area not because they were sick, but because there was no other place for them to live. They had each been in the hospital an average of 56 days. There were 23 adult clients of […]