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Funding project meets early goals to support consumers, produce cost savings
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31644
Subject(s) - ninth , mental health , business , work (physics) , mental illness , population , state (computer science) , operations management , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , physics , algorithm , acoustics
A little more than a year into its six‐year operation, a mental health Pay for Success (PFS) program designed to deliver publicly funded services to consumers with serious mental illness in Santa Clara County in California is reaping benefits in cost savings by helping its targeted population reduce usage of psychiatric emergency visits and state hospital days. The PFS program, the ninth used in the United States, is the first to work in the mental health arena.