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 [...]

From the Chicago Healthcare Daily:   Video conferencing and other electronic forms of communication could help address the problem of mentally ill or drug-addicted patients seeking treatment at overcrowded emergency rooms, according to two experts. Dr. Leslie Zun of Mount Sinai Hospital and Dr. Donald Hilty of the University of California-Davis Medical Center spoke Wednesday [...]

  JSA Health Telepsychiatry is pleased to announce that the  Burke Center Mental Health Emergency Center (MHEC) is the winner of the 2013 Excellence in Service Innovation Award from the National Council for Behavioral Healthcare. JSA is a clinical partner with the Burke Center in this award winning project, providing consultation, technical assistance and emergency psychiatrists [...]