Weekly News Wire | March 1, 2023
North Carolina Launches Online Registry To Decrease Wait Times For Behavioral Health Beds
On January 31, 2023, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) launched a new tool called “BH SCAN”, a centralized bed registry, to help hospitals and other provider organizations quickly find an open psychiatric or addiction treatment bed. The goal is to reduce the length of time people in behavioral health crisis wait in a hospital emergency department for an open treatment bed.
To create BH SCAN, the NCDHHS worked with Bamboo Health, through its affiliate OpenBeds Inc. NC DHHS has partnered with Bamboo Health since 2017 to monitor prescriptions and dispensing for controlled substances, with statewide . . .
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