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Past Events
COVID-19 Impact On Patient Safety and Healthcare Staff in Vermont Hospitals and Nationally: A Presentation Showcased By Our MiddWorks Intern From Middlebury College, Aaliyah Balogun
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Friday, October 15, 2021 (10:00 am - 11:15 am) - The Trieste Model: A Comprehensive Vision for Community-Based Mental Health Care with Minimal Involuntary Admissions - A Virtual Presentation & Discussion with Dr. Roberto Mezzina, Psychiatrist Vice President of the World Federation for Mental Health - Europe
Trieste is the capital city of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy and was the first European city to close its psychiatric hospital in 1980 as a result of a change in thinking, practices, and services. Since moving from deinstitutionalization, the Trieste Department of Mental Health has become a laboratory for innovation on social psychiatry. The Trieste model is an open door, no restraint, system of care, and uses a "whole life, whole system, whole community" approach. Relying on multisectoral collaboration, the model is not only evidence-based, but values-based, with an investment focused on strengthening the person, citizen, and active community member. The Trieste model was acknowledged by the WHO Collaborating Centre in 1987. Most recently, it was identified as a comprehensive service network model in the WHO guidance on community mental health services promoting person-centered and rights-based approaches.
The purpose of this session was to provide an overview of the Trieste model, and to see what applications could be made to the Vermont setting.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021 (3:00 pm - 4:30 pm) - The North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program (NC-STeP): A Presentation & Discussion with Sy Saeed, MD, MS, FACPsych
During this event, we talked with Dr. Sy Saeed, Founding Executive Director of the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at East Carolina University-Brody School of Medicine.
Dr. Saeed spoke about the NC-STeP program, which is alleviating stress in hospital emergency departments across North Carolina. The program was instituted so that an individual presenting at a hospital emergency department with an acute mental health crisis would receive a timely specialized psychiatric assessment via video conferencing technology. General Statute 143B-139.4B, subsequently, has expanded NC-STeP services to include community-based sites. Overall, the program has generated cost savings that are counted from overturned involuntary commitments, which benefited state psychiatric facilities, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, Medicare, Medicaid, and many other stakeholders. Specific to state psychiatric facilities, the program has achieved estimated cumulative cost savings of $39,630,600 from preventing unnecessary hospitalizations.
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June 30, 2021 - Evidence-Based Healthcare Quality & Safety Improvement Tools and Methods
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June 18, 2021 - Strategies for Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in Vermont Emergency Departments: A Presentation & Discussion with Dr. Scott Zeller
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August 20, 2020 - Health Equity & Health Care
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