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Senate bill would authorize grants to expand rural telemental health
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32431
Subject(s) - legislation , covid-19 , telemedicine , mental health , business , key (lock) , political science , economic growth , public administration , health care , medicine , law , computer security , psychiatry , economics , computer science , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Residents of rural communities always have struggled to gain access to effective mental health services, and the COVID‐19 crisis has only added to the urgency of the problem. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is responding with proposed legislation that would establish a telemental health care demonstration program targeting three key industry groups prominent in rural areas.