President Barack Obama speaks to the American Medical Association (AMA) addressing concerns about health insurance reform and the whole nation, including physicians from coast to coast, is listening. “A general consensus seems to exist that the AMA will not support a public health insurance, option. psychiatric+health
Three Republican senators took their case against Democrats’ health reform to a Texas Medical Center gathering Tuesday, warning that a government insurance option is a “gateway to a single-payer system,” The Houston Chronicle reports. Sens. John Cornyn, Texas, John McCain, Ariz. and Mitch McConnell, Ky. met at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. psychiatric+health
“In what is becoming an annual ordeal for policyholders, Regence BlueShield is raising premiums for 135,000 individual health-plan members in Washington [state] by an average 17 percent on Aug. 1,” the Seattle Times reports. psychiatric+health
LOS ANGELES - ACTRESS Mischa Barton is reportedly under an ‘involuntary psychiatric hold’ according to media reports on Friday. Access Hollywood reported that The OC star, 23, is at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles after being contacted by an ‘inside source’.
RENO — A Reno psychiatric hospital has reached an agreement with state regulators that will allow it to remain open after deficiencies led the state to threaten closing it.
The role of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP) is primarily clinical and involves a full range of primary mental health care services.