Promoting collaborative psychiatric care decision-making in community mental health centers: Insights from a patient-centered comparative effectiveness trial.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim L. MacDonald-Wilson ◽  
Kelly Williams ◽  
Cara E. Nikolajski ◽  
Gregory McHugo ◽  
Chaeryon Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Effectiveness ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Effectiveness Trial ◽  
Community Mental Health Centers ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Mental Health Centers ◽  
Care Decision

Addressing Inadequacies in the Care of Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (S10) ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Community Mental Health Centers ◽  
Laboratory Facilities ◽  
Underserved Patients ◽  
Mental Health Centers ◽  
Physical Care

Physicians treating patients with serious mental illness need to overcome a number of hurdles to ensure that appropriate health care is provided to these often underserved patients. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 established community mental health centers (CMHCs) that provide patients with access to psychiatric care, with the unintended consequence of separating mental health care from physical care. CMHCs do not always have adequate resources to screen, monitor, and treat cardiovascular disease (CVD): they lack sufficient funding, have limited staff, and often do not have laboratory facilities for monitoring lipids and blood glucose.

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