Category: Mental Health
Growing retiree costs threaten Milwaukee County mental health services
Pensions and healthcare costs for Milwaukee County retirees could pose a threat to mental healthcare services in the future, panelists warned at a Wisconsin Health News event Tuesday.
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Milwaukee County aims to complete crisis services redesign by late 2020, early 2021
Milwaukee County is hoping to implement a redesign of its mental health crisis system by the time a new provider in the area begins supplying inpatient services to those now served by the Mental Health Complex.
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Advocates back bill granting unaccompanied minors emergency mental health treatment
Mental health advocates back a bill that would allow unaccompanied youth access to emergency outpatient mental health treatment without parental consent.
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On the Record with Elizabeth Hudson, Director of the Office of Children’s Mental Health
The foundation of children’s mental health is relationships, according to Elizabeth Hudson, director of the state’s Office of Children’s Mental Health. Hudson suggested that those interested in improving mental health should be “broadening our scope” to focus on issues beyond mental healthcare providers. “A lot of folks focus on the need for more mental health […]
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Milwaukee County plans to assess mental health crisis system
Milwaukee County officials and area health systems are hoping to work together on an assessment of mental health crisis services as the county readies to shutter its inpatient psychiatric hospital. The county has spent years trying to outsource services now performed at its inpatient psychiatric hospital at the Mental Health Complex. The last vendor involved […]
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Contender to take on Milwaukee County psychiatric hospital pushes back against Buzzfeed report
Pennsylvania-based Universal Health Services, the sole vendor left in the process to outsource inpatient services at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, faced a barrage of questions from county mental health board members and staff about their quality of care last week.
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Providers concerned about how DHS plans to pursue Medicaid rate increase for mental healthcare
The Wisconsin Hospital Association, while supporting more funding for mental healthcare, has concerns about how the Department of Health Services plans to implement a Medicaid rate increase for such services.
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Mental health committee green lights emergency detention bill
The Assembly’s mental health reform committee has unanimously approved a bill that would prohibit law enforcement from transporting an individual to emergency detention from an emergency room unless a hospital or medical staff member gives the OK.
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