H-7204 (Shallcross Smith) & S-2072 (DiMario)
“It’s the most reliable program that I have worked with in my twenty years of working in primary care.” – Rhode Island Primary Care Provider
The need for pregnant, postpartum, and pediatric access to mental health support is urgent and growing, with both a maternal and children’s mental health crisis occurring. In Rhode Island, there is a lack of specialized mental health providers. As such, much of the burden for initial mental healthcare falls on frontline health care providers, who do not have extensive training to treat mental health conditions and must navigate a complex and overtaxed system to get patients the care they need.
Rhode Island’s MomsPRN and PediPRN programs help address this gap by empowering healthcare professionals, building competency, and increasing patient access to mental health care by offering frontline clinicians same day specialized clinical teleconsultations that include resource/referral support and ongoing professional education.
Read the full fact sheet here.
