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Establishing the Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic, New Orleans (EPIC-NOLA): Sustainability Challenges Threaten Clinical Success
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 32, Number 1, February 2021
- pp. 8-17
- 10.1353/hpu.2021.0003
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Summary:
This paper describes the implementation of the first coordinated specialty care clinic for first episode psychosis in New Orleans, Louisiana (Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic-New Orleans), a historically underserved area. Successes, lessons, and challenges will be explored in the context of a mission to provide highest quality clinical care in the current insurance reimbursement systems.