COVID-19’s devastating effects reach far into our lives, and community leaders are recognizing the pandemic’s impact on mental health.
Libby Moore, chief clinical officer for Texas Panhandle Centers, highlights the coordination that can take place to align stakeholders and improve care for patients through the XFERALL platform.
As people lost their jobs and incomes, lost loved ones, experienced isolation, and dealt with the lingering pandemic and uncertainty, mental health suffered. As a result, collaboration and coordination are needed more than ever to ensure individuals have access to available services. Even before COVID-19, XFERALL and its clients recognized the opportunity to improve coordination and collaboration across multiple entities where patients too often experience crisis and languish in hospital emergency departments. Many times, hospital personnel call behavioral health hospitals one-by-one searching for an available psychiatric bed.
As illustrated by Libby Moore, chief clinical officer for Texas Panhandle Centers, located in Amarillo, Texas, coordination among stakeholders can result in better outcomes for patients experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
Read the Opinion piece she authored for the Amarillo Globe News here.