UW News | July 19, 2022
A new study shows that All Patients Safe improved the knowledge and attitudes of a large number of health care professionals in regard to suicide and increased their confidence in addressing the needs of patients at risk of suicide.
Department news | May 31, 2022
Thanks to a commitment on the part of UWMC leadership to increase behavioral health access for our patients, the UW Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic (OPC) on Roosevelt is enlarging its footprint over the coming year.
Department news | April 21, 2022
Concrete deliveries have resumed and foundation work is once again underway for the new UW Medicine Behavioral Health Teaching Facility (BHTF) on the UW Medical Center-Northwest campus.
Department news | October 29, 2021
Mental health in our region took a huge step forward with the groundbreaking of the new UW Medicine Behavioral Health Teaching Facility (BHTF) at UW Medical Center–Northwest that will care for patients and train the next generation of behavioral health providers.
Bellingham Herald | May 24, 2022
Making it easier and faster to get mental health care with primary providers is the goal of PeaceHealth’s new integrated behavioral health teams, helped by the Community-Based Integrated Care Fellowship Program offered by the Integrated Care Training Program (ICTP) and the AIMS Center.
KGMI Radio | March 3, 2022
Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, says the CDC is trying to make the use of opioids for pain treatments easier and safer.
Department news | December 28, 2021
A new TBI ECHO trains community providers from a variety of disciplines and settings who treat persons with TBI.
Department news | December 28, 2021
The Specialized Treatment for Early Psychosis (STEP) Program based at the Harborview Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) has officially joined the New Journeys Network in Washington state.
Department news | November 29, 2021
In the early weeks of the COVID 19 pandemic, we were asked to start a volunteer-driven Supportive Conversations program led by Mollie Forrester, MSW, LICSW, to bolster the mental health of our UW Medicine colleagues.
Department news | June 30, 2015
Our State suffers from a serious lack of psychiatric providers in rural settings. This is because our psychiatrists are clustered around Seattle and Spokane – with few of us choosing to live in rural communities and settings. However, even if our psychiatrists were better distributed across the state, we would still not have enough psychiatric […]
