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What the White House Wants You to Know About Health Care Reform

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In the past few days, we’ve received three really interesting new pieces of information about the health care law, and we wanted to share these data points with you so that you get a big picture of how things are changing for the better as the law gets implemented.

First, the [...]

VA, DoD and HHS Partner to Expand Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members and Families

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2013 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343

Inter-Agency Effort to Increase Access to Mental Health Services Responds to Executive Order

WASHINGTON – Today, the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA), Defense (DoD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the progress made to date on initiatives called for in President [...]

“Severely Compromised Life Circumstances,” Not Lack of Access to Health Care, Cause Frequent ER Use by Veterans

Press Release – April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Even with health insurance, ready access to preventive, specialty and behavioral health care and comprehensive electronic medical records, nearly 8 percent of patients in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) visit the emergency department two or more times per year, according to a study published online Tuesday [...]

New Report Finds Americans Suffer More Health Disadvantages and are Dying Younger than All Other Developed Nations

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. For many years, Americans have been dying at younger ages than people in almost all other high-income countries. This health disadvantage prevails even though the U.S. spends far more per person on health care than any other [...]

SAMHSA Report to Congress: The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, Evaluation Findings

SAMHSA has released Report to Congress: The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, Evaluation Findings

The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, also known as the Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI), is a cooperative agreement program administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services [...]

NIH study finds primary care doctors miss many alcohol screening opportunities

For Immediate Release

Thursday, October 6, 2011 Physicians often fail to counsel their young adult patients about excessive alcohol use, according to a study led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health.

NIAAA guidelines for low risk drinking call for men to drink no [...]

New: Report Aims to Integrate Mental Health and Mental Illness Prevention in PUblic Health Strategy

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Mental health (MH) is increasingly recognized by the public health community as critical to good health. An estimated 26% of Americans age 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. The estimated lifetime prevalence of any mental disorder among the U.S. adult population is [...]

May is Mental Health Month!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2012 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 Statement from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Mental Health Month

Last year, 45.9 million adult Americans had a mental illness, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Survey on Drug Use and Health. These conditions affect individuals, [...]

SAMHSA Launches Learning Collaboratives for Peer or Recovery Community Organizations in 8 States

25 April 2012 From the SAMHSA Innovations Blog: http://blog.samhsa.gov/2012/04/25/samhsa-launches-learning-collaboratives-in-8-states-join-today/ A few weeks ago, SAMHSA launched a major health reform education effort with the announcement of awards for health reform education to eight peer or recovery community organizations. In the coming months SAMHSA will continue to use the blog as a launching point for health reform [...]

HHS announces new Affordable Care Act options for community-based care

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2012 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 Medicaid and Medicare introduce greater flexibility for beneficiaries to receive care at home or in settings of their choice

New opportunities in Medicaid and Medicare that will allow people to more easily receive care and services in their communities rather than being [...]

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