From Last Resort to First Support
Across the country, hospitals are experiencing the same reality: behavioral health demand keeps rising while access remains limited.
Across the country, hospitals are experiencing the same reality: behavioral health demand keeps rising while access remains limited.
At NACCHO360 2025, CredibleMind joined thousands of public health professionals to exchange practical ideas and real-world solutions. One major takeaway: community mental health needs are growing, and so is our ability to respond.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a major nongovernmental agency that often guides healthcare screening practices, may finally recommend screening patients for anxiety. While this is a needed step, you can do more to help the population you serve, whether they are employees, community residents, or healthcare plan members. Many in your population are suffering, resulting in lost productivity and greater care costs.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a major nongovernmental agency that often guides healthcare screening practices, may finally recommend screening patients for anxiety. While this is a needed step, you can do more to help the population you serve, whether they are employees, community residents, or healthcare plan members. Many in your population are suffering, resulting in lost productivity and greater care costs.
The pandemic has impacted our lives in unimaginable ways. It’s given us the time and space to step out of our hamster-wheel lives and truly think about how we are spending our time, what we are prioritizing, and most importantly, what our attitudes are towards how we live. Before the pandemic, employees were accustomed to careers designed around an endless pursuit of more money and success. But, as the challenging and traumatic days, months, and years of the pandemic have passed, the helplessness so many of us felt in the beginning transformed into an unexplainable longing for something more, and eventually, the impetus to go out and find it.
The pandemic has impacted our lives in unimaginable ways. It’s given us the time and space to step out of our hamster-wheel lives and truly think about how we are spending our time, what we are prioritizing, and most importantly, what our attitudes are towards how we live. Before the pandemic, employees were accustomed to careers designed around an endless pursuit of more money and success. But, as the challenging and traumatic days, months, and years of the pandemic have passed, the helplessness so many of us felt in the beginning transformed into an unexplainable longing for something more, and eventually, the impetus to go out and find it.