JSA Health Telepsychiatry is pleased to announce the provision of  services for the Emergency Health Network Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in El Paso, Texas. This project will include a groundbreaking use of iPads to see ACT patients who are unwilling to come to clinics, but are willing to be seen in their homes [...]

Gonzalo J. Perez-Garcia, M.D. is the newest Deputy Medical Director at JSA Health Telepsychiatry. Dr. Perez- Garcia was an early member of the UTPA/BCM Premedical Honors College, an 8 year B.S./M.D. This program was designed to generate more doctors from the southernmost 13 counties of Texas, an area that is underserved medically. Through telepsychiatry at [...]

  JSA Health Telepsychiatry is pleased to announce that CEO Dr. Avrim Fishkind has been published in a new textbook by Cambridge Publishing entitled, “Behavioral Emergencies for the Emergency Physician.” The chapter describes the roll of emergency telepsychiatry in assisting with psychiatric crises that occur in general medical hospitals. The chapter evolved out of a [...]

JSA Health Telepsychiatry once again demonstrates it’s capacity to deliver psychiatric services when and where they are needed: Recently, Baylor University of Waco, Texas found itself suddenly without the services of a psychiatrist at it’s student health center. Turning to JSA Health Telepsychiatry for an emergency implementation…accomplished in less than three days, JSA began seeing [...]

As published in North Carolina health News: A pilot program to provide psychiatric assessments to patients in the emergency department is proving so successful that it will be rolled out statewide. By Amy Ellis On the eastern edge of our state, a mental health patient who’s been involuntarily committed by his family previously enters a [...]