Over the past decade, emergency room visits for mental health-related needs have soared. But the ER is often not the only option for treatment. Certified community behavioral health clinics, or CCBHCs, provide evidence-based care for mental illness and substance use disorder. There are hundreds of these centers around the U.S. today. 

Fierce Healthcare’s Anastassia Gliadkovskaya speaks to Chuck Ingoglia, president and CEO of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, about the CCBHC model, how it works and what it takes for states to participate.  

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• Learnings from Indiana's behavioral health system overhaul
• Avel eCare to offer virtual behavioral health services to people in crisis in North Dakota
• AI in action: Enhancing suicide risk detection in behavioral health
• HLTH24: A look at outcomes in Highmark's new behavioral health program

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