For Mental Health Awareness Month, two physician assistants are breaking down barriers to mental health care by opening North Alabama’s first psychiatric urgent care, offering same-day appointments and eliminating the weeks-long wait for treatment.
Families say the change was abrupt, and that the impact has been immediate.
Alabama, a state with one of the nation’s highest infant mortality rates, is betting on robots to help fix its maternal care crisis. But the state’s plan for telerobotic ultrasounds in rural areas has raised doubts.
It will soon be easier for veterans in our area to receive mental health support.
During a health care roundtable at the White House on Friday, Dr. Mehmet Oz praised the state’s “pretty cool” plan.
Alabama's mental health care network was thrown into confusion as federal grants were canceled and then restored in a period of 24 hours.
