Jun 17, 2019 | Mental Health Update
What is the Issue? Summer children’s camps are unable to hire on staff mental health clinicians to work in their sleep away or day camps because of existing Corporate Practice Law. Yet Summer Camps are able to hire medical professionals such as physicians and nurses...
Jun 17, 2019 | Mental Health Update
With only a few days left of this year’s Legislative Session, there are few things more important than passage of the HALT legislation to reduce solitary confinement and ban it completely for individuals with mental health issues. I have rarely seen a campaign with...
Jun 13, 2019 | Mental Health Update
More and more States are continuing to follow the lead of New York in making it mandatory to teach about Mental Health in Schools. We are pleased to see that New Jersey is working on similar legislation that will hopefully be passed and signed into law. This is from...
Jun 13, 2019 | Mental Health Update
I want to apologize for sending out the wrong information last night in my update. The fund of which we are attempting to get a set aside for is the Health Care Transformation Fund (set up by Governor Cuomo as a fund around healthcare business transactions) and not...
Jun 12, 2019 | Mental Health Update
Recently we have been referencing several of the last minute legislative items that are of importance to MHANYS including the HALT Legislation and elimination of prior authorization for Medication Assistance Treatment. Other issues of importance include set aside...
Jun 12, 2019 | Mental Health Update
In the waning days of Legislative Session, there is a full court press going on to support the HALT bill. Today’s Albany Times Union has a very powerful Op Ed from Harvey Rosenthal urging support for this legislation. Viewpoint: Let’s Lead The Way On Solitary...
