{"id":21012,"date":"2023-03-21T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21012"},"modified":"2023-03-21T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:29:33","slug":"mental-health-care-by-video-fills-gaps-in-rural-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21012","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Care by Video Fills Gaps in Rural Nursing Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Tony Leys for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KNOXVILLE, Iowa \u2015 Bette Helm was glad to have someone to talk with about her insomnia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helm lives in a nursing home in this central Iowa town of about 7,500 people, where mental health services are sparse. On a recent morning, she had an appointment with a psychiatric nurse practitioner about 800 miles away in Austin, Texas. They spoke via video, with Helm using an iPad she held on her lap while sitting in her bed.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/mental-health-telemedicine-rural-nursing-homes\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/mental-health-telemedicine-rural-nursing-homes\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Tony Leys for Kaiser Health News) KNOXVILLE, Iowa \u2015 Bette Helm was glad to have someone to talk with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,24,33],"tags":[91,135,94,410,103],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","category-nursing-homes","category-telehealth","tag-mental-health","tag-nursing-homes","tag-older-adults","tag-rural-health","tag-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","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=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21013,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions\/21013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}