Checking In With CMH

Cross-posted from Penn LDI’s Health Policy$ense Robin Ortiz, MD and Laura Sinko, PhD As the country looks to reopen and epidemiologists anticipate future waves of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, we must address an equally important “pandemic:” the virus’ far-reaching mental health and trauma-related consequences. Whether balancing activities of essential work with exposure risk, bearing witness to suffering […]

Sonam Saxena Adjusting to quarantine looks different for everyone. For individuals on the autism spectrum, the substantial daily changes associated with the pandemic have proven especially challenging and confusing.   Many recently-published stories detail the challenges that individuals with autism or individuals caring for them currently face, including this one by STAT, this one by […]

Molly Candon Health care workers are center stage in this once-in-a-lifetime crisis, and their exposure to COVID-19 is more than just physical. The challenges that come with delivering care to high-risk and highly contagious patients cannot be understated. It’s difficult to track, but CDC reports suggest that upwards of 20% of COVID-19 reported cases are […]

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Molly Candon, David Mandell, and Rebecca Stewart Opioid use disorder continues to afflict communities near and far. A major obstacle facing patients and their families is access to medication therapy, and one reason is the requirement that physicians and some advanced practitioners secure a federal waiver, undergo training, and have a patient cap for prescribing buprenorphine. Why do […]

The emergent rise in the older adult population is creating new challenges for healthcare providers that affect a range of healthcare needs.  Prior to 2016, older adults comprised 13.5% of the total U.S. population, which will double by 2030.  According to the US Census Bureau, in November of 2016, the U.S. older adult population surpassed […]

The Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research (CMHPSR), the more than 30-year-old multi-disciplinary center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to advancing research, policy, practice and training to improve mental health care and mental health outcomes, announced today the launch of its new name, logo, tagline and […]