Community centers show acute care promise; payment a problem

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Many mental healthcare experts believe that community-based acute care may be an effective treatment for the mentally ill, but funding for the programs has been sparse. Additionally, only about 40 US programs are available for the mentally ill, despite the lower cost. One reason for the shortage of funding is that private insurers and Medicaid may have a bias toward hospital-based acute care. However, many mental healthcare experts feel that community-based acute care should be supported if only because it offers more treatment choices for the mentally ill.

Care and treatment, Innovations, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill, Psychiatric clinics

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An outspoken leader vacates his high-profile AMA post

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American Medical Association (AMA) Hospital Medical Staff Section (HMSS) Chmn Howard L. Lang has stepped down amid a show of great respect at the section's 1992 meeting. Lang has headed the HMSS since 1986 and is acknowledged as a true leader and great intellect. Lang has not been afraid to challenge the AMA and often forced his constituents to think about complex medical problems and how to best solve them.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Officials and employees, Physicians, Medical professions, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Biography, American Medical Association, Lang, Howard L.

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