Discussion: Mental Health Care Act
Discussion: Mental Health Care Act
Question Description
I need a response to this classmate’s post using Three references. Thank You very much!!
Megan Roll
RE: Discussion – Week 7
Many health-care policies have been proposed in the last five years. The Defending Access to Mental Health Care Act is one proposed policy. The purpose of this proposal is to ensure loan repayments and adequate staffing for inpatient pediatric mental health facilities (Congress, 2019). The reason for this proposal is that there are not enough healthcare providers working in the field of pediatric mental health. Children are going untreated because these facilities lack adequate staff and the ability to make loan payments for an inpatient mental health facility. This proposed policy, I believe, is supported by sufficient evidence. In the United States, up to 20% of children meet the criteria for a mental health disorder (Bardach et al, 2018). With such a large number of patients, more staff with proper training is required to care for them. Up to 10% of pediatric hospital patients have a primary diagnosis of a mental health condition, but the quality of care provided to these patients is unknown (Bardach et al, 2018). Having an adequate number of staff who are properly trained in pediatric mental health will improve both staff and patient safety, as well as patient care in these facilities (O’Connor, 2017). The Defending Access to Mental Health Care Act will allow struggling youth to receive the care they require by allowing them to pay for access to care and having adequate staffing in the facility.
References
N. Bardach, Q. Burkhart, L. Richardson, C. Roth, M. Murphy, L. Parast, C. Gidengil, J. Marmet, M. Britto, and R. Mangione-Smith
(2018). Quality indicators for pediatric mental health care in hospitals. Pediatrics, 141(6), DOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-3554
The Defending Access to Mental Health Care Act was passed by Congress in 2019. obtained from
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senat…
T. O’Connor (2017). A best practice implementation project for the implementation of a pediatric behavioral staffing algorithm in an acute hospital. 15(11), 2799-2814 in the JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports. JBISRIR-2017-0, 10.11124/JBISRIR-2017-0
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