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Wisconsin Seeks to Invest $500M in Behavioral Health Over Next Two Years; Philadelphia Addiction Treatment Facility Closes Doors · Becker's Healthcare Behavioral Health

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  This is Randy Homan with Becker's Behavioral Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news brief for May 2nd. First,
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  Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is unveiling a 500 million mental health
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  initiative as part of his bi budget, which will unfold over the next two years.
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  However,
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  over 500 items of his budget are expected to be removed by committee members.
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  Several of these concern mental health,
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  one expected removal is 270 million to continue school-based
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  mental health services.
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  Another is 4 million to support the purchase of opioid antagonists like
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  Narcan, which is used to reverse opioid overdoses.
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  A third is 3.2 million to support stimulant prevention and treatment efforts.
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  Another is 1 million for a statewide suicide prevention program.
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  Second addiction treatment provider.
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  United Recovery Project in Florida is planning to open a new behavioral
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  health facility. Also in Florida.
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  The facility will work with individuals with a variety of mental illnesses.
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  This includes disorders like anxiety, bipolar, depressive, dissociative,
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  post panic, stress, obsessive compulsive, panic, borderline personality,
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  and s schizoaffective. Others include schizophrenia and self-harm.
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  Patients will receive individualized treatment plans that are updated regularly.
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  They'll also have access to a team of psychiatrists, nurses,
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  nurse practitioners, dieticians, clinical therapists, case managers,
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  and mental health technicians.
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  The center will provide individual family and group counseling.
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  Other support includes follow-up care, non-verbal therapies,
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  employment and educational support, and more. To be admitted,
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  patients must have mental illness as their primary diagnosis. However,
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  patients with co-occurring disorders such as mental illness and substance abuse
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  issues can still receive treatment at the facility.
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  Third Addiction Services Program.
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  Chances in Philadelphia Closed Following financial issues,
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  the nonprofit Public Health Management Corporation operated the program.
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  It was initially founded to help women and mothers in treatment for substance
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  use disorders and offered childcare services.
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  It later expanded to offer care to men,
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  as well as medication assisted treatment counseling, behavioral health services,
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  skills training, job support, and a summer camp for kids.
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  Chances changed its insurance reimbursement model during the pandemic to a
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  value-based payment. The change resulted in significant debt for the program.
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  The program officially closed at the end of March. It's one 30.
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  Participants removed other outpatient programs in Philadelphia.
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