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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.