Crossing Rivers gets $600,000 mental health grant as new hospital nears
La Crosse Tribune (WI)May 21, 2015
The telehealth options will be involved in mental and behavioral health services in particular, after a 2012 community health needs assessment placed them among the top three priorities, said Crossing Rivers CEO
The grant from the
It will help fund a project called Mental Health Through TeleHealth, which will include psychologists and psychiatrists providing treatment and psychotherapy via interactive video.
Besides the medical center, the project will feature telehealth sites at Crawford County Human Services,
When the system is up and running, it will increase the number of people who can access mental health services, reduce wait time between appointments, boost the caseload capacity of agencies involved and decrease the need for travel and associated costs for patients and providers, said Dr.
Crawford County Human Services Director
"This effort has the potential to enhance services that are critical to residents of our county for the foreseeable future," McWilliams said.
The new facility, scheduled to begin accepting patients in mid-June, will replace a landlocked, outdated hospital that had been renovated 11 times since it was built more than five decades ago. A grand opening is scheduled for
The
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