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Mental Health Facts in America
Prevalence of Mental Illness
by Diagnosis

Consequences

Mental
Illness

1.1%

2.6%

1 in 100 (2.4 million)
American adults live
with schizophrenia.

2.6% (6.1 million) of
American adults live
with bipolar disorder.

6.9%

18.1%

6.9% (16 million) of
American adults live
with major depression.

18.1% (42 million) of
American adults live
with anxiety disorders.

Addiction

Impact

10.2m

1st

Approximately 10.2 million
adults have co-occuring
mental health and
addiction disorders.

26%

Approximately 26% of homeless
adults staying in shelters live
with serious mental illness.

24%

Approximately 24% of state
prisoners have "a recent history
of a mental health condition".

Depression is the leading cause
of disability worldwide, and is a
major contributor to the global
burden of disease.

$

-$193b

Serious mental illness costs
America $193.2 billion in lost
earning every year.

90%

90% of those who die by
suicide have an underlying
mental illness. Suicide is the
10th leading cause of death
in the U.S.

Reading Hospital is Focused on Enhancing Behavioral Health
To enhance care within its network, Reading
Hospital is piloting a program designed to
integrate behavioral health services into primary
care physician offices. Under the care model,
which is being piloted at a family practice,
internal medicine practice and pediatric
practice, "integrated care clinicians" such as
licensed social workers or counselors have a
designated office in the practice.

The kiosk has a touch screen display that
enables users to take a mental health screening
assessment. Based on the user's answers, the
kiosk's software program provides an anonymous assessment of the user's mental health. It
can help identify conditions such as depression,
anxiety or substance abuse disorders.

During time with the nurse before the
patient sees the physician, the nurse uses a
national questionnaire to screen for depression.
Patients whose scores indicate moderate or
severe depression visit the clinician, free of
charge, after the appointment with their
physician. The service, which began in 2017,
has been successful in all three practices.

Committed to working with community
partners, Reading Hospital has representatives
on the Berks County Suicide Prevention Task
Force, which is comprised of community
leaders who collaborate to reduce suicide in
Berks County through advocacy, education
and the reduction of stigma surrounding
mental illness and suicide. The task force
website, ruOK Berks?, provides resources
and information on behavioral health topics.

Reading Hospital strives to provide the
public with access to behavioral health tools.
In December 2017, the hospital installed
a MindKare® Mental Health Kiosk in
Reading HealthPlex lobby. The kiosk is
much like a blood pressure screening kiosk in
a supermarket - except this kiosk measures
mental health.

Looking ahead, Reading Hospital is partnering with Acadia Healthcare to provide
additional behavioral health services, including
a new 144-bed inpatient facility that will open
in 2019. The facility will include inpatient
adolescent, adult and geriatric psychiatric
inpatient care as well as a full continuum of
outpatient services.
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