{"id":17986,"date":"2021-04-09T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:14:44","slug":"tele-mental-health-care-brings-options-to-texas-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17986","title":{"rendered":"Tele-mental health care brings options to Texas Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov)<\/p>\n<p>To the VA North Texas Health Care System, COVID-19 is more than just a disease, it\u2019s a challenge that has tested the readiness of the Mental Health Program and forced it to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in March 2020, it started to become apparent that COVID-19 was going to be here for a while,\u201d said Martin Barrick, a mental health integration social worker. \u201cWe had to adapt the way we delivered mental health care. We had to figure out how to care for Veterans who are already under a lot of stress while minimizing the risk of catching and spreading this disease.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/87030\/tele-mental-health-care-brings-options-texas-veterans\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov) To the VA North Texas Health Care System, COVID-19 is more than just a disease, it\u2019s a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telehealth","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17987,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions\/17987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}