The Role of the Psychiatrist in a Neighborhood Health Center
Abstract
El Rio Santa Cruz Neighborhood Health Center in Tucson hired a half-time psychiatric coordinator to integrate the center's psychiatric services. He acted as a consultant to the health teams, attended weekly staff meetings to discuss mental health cases and teach psychiatric concepts, initiated seminars on aspects of mental health services to the poor for staff members and other professionals working in the community, and helped design studies of the center's services. The relationship of the neighborhood health center to health maintenance organizations also is discussed.
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