A Partnership to Deliver Integrated Health Care

Sun, 06/22/2008

From the brief:

Rural residents often live quite a distance from hospitals and health clinics and as a result, getting the necessary medical treatment can be difficult. This is especially true for treatment of mental health problems where the number of people with unmet mental health needs has reached crisis proportions.

By Elizabeth Hilbig, Marcy Burstiner and Sheila Steinberg

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Wed, 02/10/2010 - 6:17am — Lawrence (not verified)

A great program

This sounds like a great program that is working rather well. However, with a population of around 130,000 and only being able to provide health services to 38,000 how do the expand the operation to reach the others?