Mission Health lands $1.25M grant for behavioral health care quoting : The Citizen-Times

Paulus added that integrating mental health care and primary care is "both best practice and common sense." The Asheville-based health care provider said Monday the grant will allow it to address mental health care, a need it said that has "increased dramatically over the past two decades." Its rankings take into account adults with mental illness, mental health workforce availability as well as depressive episodes and drugs or alcohol in the state's youth. (Photo: Citizen-Times file photo)ASHEVILLE - Mission Health has been granted $1.25 million from The Duke Endowment that will allow it to blend behavioral health services with its existing primary care in Western North Carolina. Additions related to the grant include mental health assessments, brief therapy, and "collaborative treatment planning," both in primary and obstetric care.




"I choose not to dwell on situations where we come up a little bit short," McConnell said, according to WFPL. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he thought of one person when the long-held Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare went up in flames: Hillary Clinton. Clinton had a similar failure on healthcare healthcare during her tenure as first lady, when she took the lead on reform efforts but saw her proposal was defeated by Republicans in Congress. The final blow came from Republicans in the Senate, who came up short on various healthcare proposals. The Louisville, Kentucky-based NPR affiliate WFPL reported McConnell told attendees of Fancy Farm — an annual Kentucky event — that he took solace in the fact that Clinton wasn't president following the stunning defeat of the Senate plan to repeal Obamacare.

Best and worst states for health care

To determine in which states Americans receive the best and worst health care overall, the analysts at WalletHub compared all 50 states plus the District of Columbia across 35 measures of cost, accessibility, and outcome. With the continuing battle in Washington over the future of health care in the United States, experts at personal-finance website WalletHub decided to do some digging into the quality of health care on a state-by-state basis. The 10 worst states for health care include:Louisiana Mississippi Alaska Arkansas North Carolina Georgia South Carolina Alabama Florida NevadaTo see how your state ranks, scroll over the interactive map below or see WalletHub's full report. More Americans now have access to health care than in decades past, but the cost and quality of service can vary widely depending on where someone lives. But as costs rise, the United States remains well behind other wealthy nations when it comes to life expectancy, quality of life, and overall health coverage.


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