MFP Fellows Attend Rosalyn Carter Symposium
The 21st Annual Rosalyn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy: "Crossing the Quality Chasm in Behavioral Health: Building an Action Agenda"
MFP Fellows Sheila Harvin and Ella Scott were privileged to share two information-filled days with mental health scholars from all over the country including Charles G. Curie, Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) at the 21st Annual Rosalyn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy at the Carter Center in Atlanta, GA. The purpose of the symposium was to strategize on improving the quality of health care in mental health and addictive disorders. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report, “Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions,” was the focal point of the symposium.
The Report stressed the actions required of clinicians; health care organizations; health plans; purchasers; state, local, and federal governments; and anyone involved in health care for mental and substance-use governments. The afternoon of November 3, 2005, all participants of the symposium met in six different work groups to build action steps around the recommendations outlined in the IOM report which provided the roadmap for improving the quality of health care in mental health and addictive disorders. Enthusiastically the symposium was concluded with the workshop participants fervently committing to what they or their individual organizations could and would do to address issues of quality in behavioral health.
Submitted by Sheila Harvin and Ella Scott
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