Telemedicine Closes Service Gap for Behavioral Health Patients

Teri Dunn, a licensed clinical social worker, has been working with behavioral health patients for 34 years. For the last 12, she’s been with North Country HealthCare, a community health center based in Flagstaff.
Telemedicine and Behavioral HealthNorth Country also serves patients at 14 other sites across northern Arizona, where there used to be little or no access to behavioral health care.
Telemedicine has changed that. Read more »

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