Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Mental Health Urgent Care: Bridging the Gap in Crisis Care

Urgent Message: Meridian Health’s Mental Health Urgent Care service addresses the gap between outpatient therapy and hospitalization. As a way to improve access in communities, this model also provides cost savings and convenience for clients. Katie Nolin, MSc, LMFT, LCADC In 2024, Meridian Health launched its Mental Health Urgent Care service to address a critical gap in mental healthcare: the space between outpatient therapy and hospitalization. Since the program’s inception, we’ve served 39 clients, primarily …

Providers Slow to Consider Buprenorphine For Addiction Treatment

Buprenorphine—used to treat opioid use disorder—is the only drug that ever came with federal limits on the number of patients a provider could care for. It also came with restrictions on the types of clinicians who could prescribe it. Rules requiring the so-called “x-waiver” for prescribing clinicians were ultimately repealed in December 2022. Since then, providers have been able to offer buprenorphine to any number of patients who need addiction treatment and a path to …

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