Innovation Through Virtualization: Crisis Mental Health Care during Covid-19
Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
7 September 2020
Abstract
The covid-19 pandemic created major challenges for mental health crisis care. Our crisis centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba rapidly virtualized the full spectrum of services offered with remarkable uptake, resulting in avoided hospitalizations and reduced transmission risk for covid-19. We must determine how to best adopt these approaches into post-pandemic crisis care.
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La pandémie de Covid-19 a engendré des défis majeurs quant à la prestation des soins en santé mentale en période de crise. Notre centre de crise de Winnipeg, au Manitoba, a rapidement virtualisé la gamme complète des services offerts, et ce, avec succès, permettant ainsi d’éviter des hospitalisations et de diminuer les risques de transmission de la Covid-19. Il s’agit maintenant de convenir de la meilleure façon de mettre en pratique de telles approches dans l’offre de soins de crise postpandémie.
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Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 39 • Number 2 • July 2020
Pages: 71 - 75
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Jennifer M. Hensel, James M. Bolton, Danielle Carignan Svenne, and Lori Ulrich. 2020. Innovation Through Virtualization: Crisis Mental Health Care during Covid-19. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health.
39(2): 71-75. https://doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-2020-014
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