Ryan K McBain

1 month ago | rand.org | Priya Gandhi |Joshua Breslau |Ryan K McBain |Jonathan Levin

Key Findings Clinics that did not screen differed from clinics that did screen with respect to their locations, whether they were FQHCs, and whether they listed a pediatric provider among their staff. Lack of awareness remains a major reason that clinics do not conduct ACE screening. Many never-screener clinics simply did not know about ACE screening. Among the late adopter group, most of the clinics began screening soon after learning about it.

Oct 16, 2023 | rand.org | Ryan K McBain |Jonathan Cantor |Nicole K. Eberhart

The US is confronting an urgent and worsening shortage of psychiatric beds. For example, in Massachusetts, hundreds of patients have been wait-listed for acute inpatient psychiatric beds. In California, well over a thousand individuals deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial have been housed in county jails, awaiting placement at psychiatric facilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this dynamic, creating an epidemic within the broader pandemic.