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Broadlawns Medical Center delivers high-quality, compassionate, and cost-effective healthcare in Des Moines, IA. The health system’s services include acute care, emergency care, specialty clinics, dentistry, and behavioral healthcare. Like many healthcare organizations across the country, Broadlawns faced challenges in psychiatric staffing. With a comprehensive behavioral health program—including an outpatient clinic, behavioral health urgent care, and […]

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 3, 2024 – Integrated Telehealth Partners (ITP), a national provider of behavioral health services, earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for telehealth accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects ITP’s commitment to providing safe and quality […]

Gunderson Health System began using Integrated Telehealth Partners (ITP) in 2023 for virtual mental health assessments and patient placements in the emergency departments at six Wisconsin-based hospitals. Gunderson, which is now part of Emplify Health, consistently ranks as one of the top critical access hospital systems in the country. Addressing the needs of patients experiencing […]

Learn how Mountrail County Medical Center won patients back by adding telebehavioral health services through a partnership with ITP. The medical center started by offering mental health counseling services two days a week and quickly added a third day. “Now that we have a behavioral health provider we’ve had a lot of patients switch back […]

Emergency departments across the country have seen a significant increase in the number of patients coming in with mental health issues over the past 20 years. It’s estimated that 40% of all ED patients experience a mental health problem, according to Access Emergency Medicine. Most acute behavioral problems are assessed and treated in general hospital […]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant updates to Medicare payment policies and rates for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2024. These updates include several key provisions aimed at improving psychiatric services and payment policies. They expand the list of conditions that qualify a […]