03/20/2018

Changing With the Culture

At a time when issues of mental and behavioral health are front and center in the news cycle, an association that targets many of those issues is changing its name.

The onetime National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems announced Monday that it would change its name to the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare. In explaining the change, NABH cited a series of major news stories keeping behavioral health in front of discussions— including the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, high suicide rates and the opioid crisis.

The association, active for the past 85 years and representing more than 1,000 specialty psychiatric hospitals and other facilities nationwide, recently spoke up on the latter issue to members of Congress, sending letters to leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee that recommend a variety of policy solutions for funding behavioral health solutions to opioid use.

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