Publications by authors named "Stephanie C Day"
Importance: American Indian/Alaska Native veterans experience a high risk for health inequities, including mental health (MH) care access. Rapid virtualization of MH care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated care continuity across the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), but the association between virtualization of care and health inequities among American Indian/Alaska Native veterans is unknown.
Objective: To examine differences in video telehealth (VTH) use for MH care between American Indian/Alaska Native and non-American Indian/Alaska Native veterans by rurality and urbanicity.
Video telehealth experienced rapid growth throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in many healthcare sectors, including mental health. The Veterans Health Administration's video telehealth platform, VA Video Connect, has been widely used to reach veterans who may have experienced difficulty accessing care, such as those living in rural areas or other barriers (e.g.
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- The article discusses a strategy called Personalized Implementation for Video Telehealth (VTH) aimed at boosting VTH adoption in a large Veterans Health Administration medical center.
- The integration of VTH into existing mental health clinics led to a marked increase in patients using VTH services and the number of VTH visits overall.
- This strategy also resulted in more specialty mental health clinics and community clinics in Houston actively providing VTH services.