Rady Children’s Embeds Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego has released promising results from a pilot program that embeds mental health clinicians in pediatric primary care practices. Preliminary results of the program, published in the November 2023 issue of Frontiers in Psychiatry, indicate that patient response to therapy has resulted in a 62 percent decrease in depression symptoms and a 44 percent reduction in anxiety symptoms.

Rady Children’s Embeds Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care

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