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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

Administrative pressure to reduce hospital emergency lengths of stay can result in premature discharges. The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. Most states have overly restrictive involuntary hold laws. What is the IMD exclusion and why should it be repealed?

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

Relias

An unintended, but positive offshoot of the pandemic is that the crisis highlighted home health’s “very quick and successful adjustments” and “versatility” to serve COVID-19 patients and millions of others served under Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration, and other services.