NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Announces Demonstration Projects for SMI and SED
NABH Inside Scoop: CMS Announces Demonstration Projects for SMI and SED
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NABH Analysis: The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6)
NABH Analysis: The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6)
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NABH Seeks 2019 Board Nominations
As the Selection Committee prepares to consider possible nominees, we would like you to help us identify potential candidates for:
- the position of Board Chair-Elect and
- two Board seats that will become available in 2019.
The Selection Committee is particularly interested in identifying senior managers who represent the broad diversity within the NABH membership, including diverse levels of care, organizational structures, and more.
Please download a nomination form to share your recommendations of individuals who you would like to see the Selection Committee include in the single-slate ballot for 2019. Please attach a curriculum vita (CV) for each individual you recommend. This will help the Selection Committee in its deliberations. You are welcome to suggest yourself or others.
Please return this form (and candidates’ CVs) by Wednesday, October 31, 2018, to maria@nabh.org (or mail to NABH, ATTN: Maria Merlie, 900 17th Street, NW, Suite 420, Washington, DC 20006).
Immediate Past Board Chair Debbie Osteen will chair the NABH Selection Committee, which will meet this fall to develop the final slate.
NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jessica Zigmond
202.393.6700, ext. 101
jessica@nabh.org
NABH Applauds Congress for Reaching Agreement on Opioid-Response Package
WASHINGTON, DC (September 26, 2018) — On behalf of more than 1,000 mental health hospitals and addiction treatment centers, the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare thanks Congress for reaching an agreement to address America’s deadly opioid crisis.
The final package includes many NABH-supported measures and contains the first substantive change to the Medicaid program’s burdensome Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion since the early 1970s.
“NABH thanks House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) for his strong leadership in the House, which helped ensure that his colleagues paid close attention to the IMD exclusion, an antiquated regulation that has denied access to inpatient treatment for those who need it,” said NABH President and CEO Mark Covall. “We also thank Reps. Mimi Walters (R-Calif.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) for their tireless efforts to understand the IMD exclusion—and do all they can to repeal this provision and remove access barriers to behavioral healthcare services for millions of Americans.”
NABH is also pleased with several other provisions in the final package and urges lawmakers to pass this legislation as soon as possible. Lives depend on it.
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About NABH
The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) advocates for behavioral healthcare and represents provider systems that are committed to the delivery of responsive, accountable, and clinically effective prevention, treatment, and care for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with mental and substance use disorders. Its members are behavioral healthcare provider organizations that own or manage more than 1,000 specialty psychiatric hospitals, general hospital psychiatric and addiction treatment units and behavioral healthcare divisions, residential treatment facilities, youth services organizations, and extensive outpatient networks. The association was founded in 1933.
NABH Maps Out Pathways to a Better Addiction Treatment System
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jessica Zigmond
202.393.6700, ext. 101
jessica@nabh.org
WASHINGTON, DC (August 9, 2018)— The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) today released Pathways to Care: Treating Opioid and Substance Use Disorders, a white paper that offers practical and applicable approaches to fixing America’s frayed substance use disorder treatment delivery system.
In 2016, more than 20 million individuals in the United States had a substance use disorder (SUD), and 89 percent of individuals who needed treatment did not receive it. This is known as the treatment gap, and it exists for individuals with all types of SUDs, including opioid use disorder. The treatment gap is literally killing us and reducing life expectancy in the United States.
The current system is characterized by limited integration between specialty addiction care and the general medical community; low use of evidence-based practices; poorly organized services that often confuse the public; limited, inconsistent, and unpredictable financing; and insufficient workforce capacity to meet consumer demand.
The good news is the United States has highly skilled clinicians and first-rate health systems and programs to treat people with SUDs. Now we need to improve access to those providers and services.
“As we build a better system to address the opioid crisis, we must look to strengthen and sustain the entire system of care,” Sarah A. Wattenberg, director of quality and addiction services at NABH, writes in Pathways to Care. “Only then will we realize our full potential—and save lives in the process.”
Wattenberg’s paper is a landscape review that presents information about unhealthy substance use and how the delivery system often fails to connect people to treatment; provide the correct evidence-based services; monitor patient recovery during and after treatment; and re-engage patients whose symptoms recur.
Along with the paper, NABH released a Pathways to Care provider checklist, an infographic that identifies key Pathways milestones, and shareable graphics to post on Twitter and LinkedIn. To access these materials, please visit www.nabh.org/pathways. Also be sure to follow us on Twitter (@NABHbehavioral), LinkedIn, and YouTube.
To schedule interviews with Sarah A. Wattenberg, please contact Jessica Zigmond using the contact information at the top of this news release.
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About NABH
The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH) advocates for behavioral healthcare and represents provider systems that are committed to delivering responsive, accountable, and clinically effective prevention, treatment, and care for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with mental and substance use disorders. Its members are behavioral healthcare provider organizations that own or manage more than 1,000 specialty psychiatric hospitals, general hospital psychiatric and addiction treatment units and behavioral healthcare divisions, residential treatment facilities, youth services organizations, and extensive outpatient networks. The association was founded in 1933.
