Pennsylvania Doctor’s Innovation Changing Behavioral Health Care

Circle Connections: Awards & Accreditations The Thomas Scattergood Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to improving behavioral health policy and practice, has created an innovation award to be given to nominees who create new and successful programs. Philadelphia is recognized as being at the epicenter of transformation in the system of care for people with mental illness and addictions. Under the leadership of Dr. Arthur C. Evans, commissioner of the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services, a model has been developed to improve results by helping addicts achieve long-term stability, instead of just getting them clean . . .