Guide offers strategies for adding workplace behavioral services.The National Business Group on Health (NBGH NBGH National Business Group on Health ) and the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services For the California public school, see . The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is a unit of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) witin the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. US government-supported group. (CMHS CMHS Center for Mental Health Services CMHS Community Mental Health Services CMHS Cabell Midland High School (West Virginia) CMHS Costa Mesa High School CMHS Cheyenne Mountain High School (Colorado Springs, CO) ) have developed an 11-page report that lists strategies to help employers create and implement a system of affordable, effective, and high-quality behavioral health services for their employees. "This toolkit lays out a compelling self-interest for employers to pay attention to mental health," said Kathryn Power, director of the CMHS, at a press conference on Dec. 12 announcing the release of the report, An Employer's Guide to Behavioral Health Services. Power and Helen Darling, president of the NBGH, noted that primary care physicians have become the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. providers of mental health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract for most Americans. A 2005 Institute of Medicine study found that primary care physicians provide 70 percent of mental health care in the United States Health care in the United States is provided by many separate legal entities. The U.S. spends more on health care, both as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) and on a per-capita basis, than any other nation in the world. Current estimates put U.S. ; of those with a clinical diagnosis of depression, 42 percent were diagnosed by a doctor practicing general medicine. The guide lists 12 key findings and 18 specific recommendations, which are categorized according to their goal, such as improving benefit design for behavioral health screening and treatment services. Three of the recommendations are intended to improve employee assistance programs. The recommendations are as follows: * Reduce redundancies between EAPs and health plans so that EAPs do not duplicate services offered by managed care organizations and managed behavioral health care organizations; * EAPs should conduct periodic organizational assessments to evaluate the effects of work organizations on employee health status, productivity, and job satisfaction; and * EAPs that are restructured to avoid redundancies with MCOs and MBHOs should retain their ability to provide assessment and short-term counseling of individuals at risk of mental illness and substance abuse disorders substance abuse disorder n. Any of a category of disorders in which pathological behavioral changes are associated with the regular use of substances that affect the central nervous system. . Copies of An Employer's Guide to Behavioral Health Services can be downloaded from the NBGH's Website, www.businessgrouphealth.org. |
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