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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #151: A high-acuity solution to the youth mental health crisis – with Carter Barnhart, co-founder & CEO of Charlie Health
Description: Friends,
The day after we recorded this interview, I picked up the May 2nd 2023 issue of JAMA and discovered that one of the leading research studies was about the rising trend in mental health-related ED visits among youth. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804326
The stats were shocking and of serious concern. Between 2011 and 2020, the percentage of pediatric ED visits attributed to mental health issues had risen from 7.7% to 13.1% – and the annual absolute numbers had risen from 4.8M to 7.5M – an average annual increase of 8%! Even more startling was the 5-fold increase in suicide-related pediatric ED vi...