Federal Furloughs To Affect Army’s Behavioral Health Care

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates Upcoming furloughs for Army civilians, along with budget cuts, will affect the Army's ability to provide behavioral health care to soldiers, an official said. More than half of the Army's behavioral health providers are either government civilians or contractors, said Col. Rebecca Porter, Ph.D., the chief of Army behavioral health care. Porter said the Army has seen success with embedded behavioral health teams, or EBHT, where behavioral health providers are taken out of the hospitals and instead aligned with specific brigades. The pilot installation for that effort was at Fort Carson . . .