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April 8, 2019
April 1, 2019 By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News https://khn.org/news/suicide-risk-grew-after-missouri-medicaid-kids-shifted-to-managed-care-hospitals-say/ After more than 2,000 Missouri children diagnosed with mental illness were shifted from traditional Medicaid into three for-profit managed-care companies, the state’s hospitals noticed an alarming trend: a doubling in the percentage who had thoughts of suicide or attempted suicide. Additionally, the average length of Read More »
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March 20, 2019 Washington University in St. Louis https://source.wustl.edu/2019/03/performance-based-pay-linked-to-employee-mental-health-problems-study-shows/ Roughly seven of 10 companies in the United States, if not around the globe, use some form of pay-for-performance compensation system: bonuses, commissions, piece rates, profit sharing, individual and team goal achievements, and so on. But does such an incentivized workplace create a negative effect on Read More »
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Apr. 01, 2019 By Laurie Katz https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/April-2019/Four-Lessons-From-Four-Years-of-Therapy I’ve now been in therapy for four years. I talk about four years a lot. It’s an important number in my life. After I was raped in 2011, I suffered in silence for just under four years. It happened at college in Chicago by a fellow student on Read More »
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4/2/19 NAMI https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/NAMI-News/2019/NAMI-Joins-16-Patient-Groups-to-Protect-Access-to-Health-Care Arlington, VA — NAMI and 16 national organizations representing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions filed an amicus curiae (“friend-of-the-court”) brief on April 1 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case Texas v. United States. This is the appeal of a District Court’s ruling to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA). If the Read More »
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March 14, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education awarded nearly $10 million to the University of Missouri for a National Center for Rural School Mental Health. (File) COLUMBIA — Students in rural Missouri schools Thursday got more support with their mental health needs. The U.S. Department of Education awarded nearly $10 million to the University of Missouri for a Read More »
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