Department news | May 31, 2023
A key component of our state’s crisis system is mobile crisis response teams that can be rapidly deployed to the location of the crisis and provide crisis assessment and stabilization services to anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
Department news | May 31, 2023
The Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit (PBMU) at Seattle Children’s has recently implemented a new model of care that provides a better clinician experience for staff and an environment that is positive, preventative and predictable for patients and families.
Department news | April 30, 2022
In her role as Co-Director of the Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center, Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD, traveled to Washington DC last month to testify in front of the US Senate Committee on Finance at a full committee hearing on “Behavioral Health Care When Americans Need It: Ensuring Parity and Care Integration.” Dr. Ratzliff spoke […]
Department news | March 31, 2021
The Zero Suicide Initiative is a nationwide program that aims to reduce pediatric self-harm and death by suicide. Seattle Children’s Hospital created a Zero Suicide Initiative Pathway for use with children and youth presenting for care to allow for standardized processes for suicide risk screening and assessment for triage to resources across the organization. All […]
Department news | February 28, 2021
A new Anxiety Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is starting at the Seattle Children’s North Clinic located in Everett. A psychiatry team was recently added at the Everett location and one of the services the team is providing is Anxiety IOP. The program will be offered remotely while the physical distancing requirements remain in place due […]
Department news | March 31, 2020
The University of Washington, Rutgers University, and the University of Massachusetts will join forces to understand the comparative effectiveness of three perinatal psychiatry consultation lines. The three-year, $4.1 million funding award from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will provide critical answers in how to address the well-documented barriers that Medicaid-insured women and their families experience […]
Department news | February 29, 2020
After a year-long, national search, Ryan Kimmel, MD, has been appointed as Chief of Psychiatry at UWMC. He takes over this role during exciting times for UWMC, with the recent incorporation of the Northwest Campus and ongoing planning for a new, 150-bed, behavioral health teaching hospital. He has served as Interim Service Chief since January, 2019. […]
Department news | January 31, 2020
Three out of every hundred people in the world will at some time in their life experience a psychotic episode, experiencing hallucinations and / or delusions and disorganization of thought that can be frightening and seriously interfere with a person’s ability to function. This is often a frightening experience and a time of tremendous uncertainty […]
Department news | December 30, 2019
Seattle Children’s Anxiety & OCD Programs, directed by Kendra Read, PhD, have expanded substantially in the last several years to account for the rising number of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) referrals for youth ages 3-17 years. Dr. Read and her team have implemented a robust cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program focused on exposures. In the last […]
Department news | December 30, 2019
We are pleased to announce the launch of the UW Medicine Behavioral Health Strategic Oversight Committee and the appointment of Jim Vollendroff, MPA, as the Behavioral Health Service Line Administrator for UW Medicine. The new Behavioral Health Service Line will support quality, coordinated services across our existing behavioral health programming and provide input on the future expansion […]
