Second behavioral health issue brief focuses on workforce crisis and call for immediate action
February 3, 2022
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing (National Council) and HMA have released the second in the series of three issue briefs examining the ongoing, and exacerbated, workforce and staffing crisis facing behavioral health services providers and facilities.
The brief, Immediate Policy Actions to Address the National Workforce Shortage and Improve Care, focuses on clinical transformation and provides short-term recommendations to support states in addressing the workforce shortages, provider burn-out, recruitment and retention.
Recommendations include:
- Adopting transformative clinical approaches and team-based care
- Identifying short-term actions and developing long-term strategies for improvement
- Expanding the workforce to build a more robust provider pipeline
- Increase adoption of in-person/telehealth hybrid models
HMA and the National Council colleagues contributed to the briefs and surrounding research.