Dr. Aaron Meyer
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first heard Jun 2026
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Because I think you would see that not only is access an issue, quality can also be an issue.
We have, for instance, for people who are on conservatorships, we have individualized treatment plans.
And sometimes the oversight of these individualized treatment plans is nonexistent.
The whole purpose of getting onto a conservatorship besides the support is to get off.
the conservatorship.
And so if we focused on people's experience within treatment settings and caregivers and families' experience of trying to navigate the system and get high quality care, I think we could learn a lot.
I would hope that our policymakers and also the people who are in charge of implementing and designing these systems would pay attention.
So my case situation would be somewhat similar.
There's a person who we cared for in the hospital who also had severe alcohol use disorder.
And we had our city teams bring him a PlayStation because he also had a long period of time waiting for the next step.
He eventually got to a mental health rehabilitation center where he did very well.
And we would visit him, a colleague and I would visit him, bring him Legos, things that he liked to do to keep his mind active.
And when he was transitioned to a board and care, a different type of residential facility, he quickly left and resumed drinking and was transitioned then not to a more therapeutic setting, but to a skilled nursing facility as a 40-year-old.
When we have gaps in the behavioral health continuum of care, where you're going to go straight from an intensive mental health rehabilitation center to an unlocked board and care facility, there needs to be somewhere in between.
It's painful and ethically brought for me when I'm considering what's the best situation for this person, for him to be repeatedly through the ER, head trauma after head trauma, intoxication after intoxication, versus
in a skilled nursing facility where he's probably not cognitively engaged and it's situations like that where the system failures lead to i think me feeling haunted by that situation
I mean, what you're asking is how do we get people to wake up?
You are 100% correct.
How do we get people to pay attention and think about themselves in that situation to have a little bit of empathy?
And I think if empathy led our systems, we'd have more person-centered systems versus system-centered care, where looking at how someone can be excluded versus how we can include someone.
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