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Health center's process improvement dramatically boosts depression care

Author(s) -

Enos Gary

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

mental health weekly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1556-7583

pISSN - 1058-1103

DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31760

Subject(s) - center (category theory) , stigma (botany) , depression (economics) , community health center , health care , population , process (computing) , community health , multiculturalism , medicine , nursing , gerontology , psychology , environmental health , public health , psychiatry , economic growth , computer science , economics , chemistry , macroeconomics , crystallography , operating system , pedagogy

A federally qualified health center (FQHC) in rural central Virginia has demonstrated that depression screening and follow‐up can be dramatically improved in a multicultural community where stigma remains a significant influence. The Harrisonburg Community Health Center achieved this through a rapid‐cycle improvement process that shattered a number of assumptions about its patient population.

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