Latest / Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health / U of Michigan to Offer Students Free Counseling Sessions; UCHealth Adds New Inpatient Unit
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- 0:00This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
- 0:04Here's your daily industry news brief for March 7th.
- 0:09First, uc Health is constructing a new inpatient unit at its Aurora,
- 0:14Colorado campus.
- 0:16The unit will provide care for individuals with severe mood and thought
- 0:19disorders who require intensive treatments like electroconvulsive therapy.
- 0:24The new unit is part of the Health System's five year,
- 0:27150 million behavioral health investment project that first began
- 0:32in 2019. Second,
- 0:35Elizabeth Layton Center is partnering with qualifax for certified Community
- 0:39Behavioral Health Center Services.
- 0:42QUALIFAX is an E H R platform.
- 0:45The center will use qualifax credible platform at both its Ottawa and Palo
- 0:50Kansas locations.
- 0:53The center hopes it will allow staff to focus on services instead of billing
- 0:58in the best in class software and services report.
- 1:01Qualifax was named as the top ranked Behavioral health E EHR Solutions
- 1:06last year and this year.
- 1:11Third,
- 1:12the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor is partnering with you will to offer
- 1:16six free counseling sessions for students per year.
- 1:20You will as a teletherapy program.
- 1:22The counseling sessions will connect students with mental health professionals
- 1:26by phone, video, or chat. It offers same day appointments.
- 1:30You Will's platform includes online scheduling with licensed therapists in all
- 1:35US states. It also has some international specialists.
- 1:39The university also announces Kelsey Stratton,
- 1:42PhD as a campus's new Chief Behavioral Health strategist.
- 1:48Thanks for listening.
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