Hospital Care Evolves - Deep Psychiatric Aftercare
Well, either you're closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge,
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community.
Ya got trouble, my friend, right here, I say, trouble right here in River City.
~ Meredith Willson | The Music Man
Fresh Answers For Psychiatric Hosptial Aftercare
Tonmoy Sharma MD, CEO of Sovereign Health, has been recognized with numerous awards, honors, and grants for his work in advancing mental health and its treatment in the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. His background as a psychiatrist has provided him with unique insight into his management of facilities in the United States, Europe, and India. His views on psychiatric aftercare now become a small marker for an important review of improved treatment options.

He's a prolific researcher and scientist and has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and five books on schizophrenia and mental illness. Under his leadership, Sovereign Health has grown from a small facility in San Clemente to a national brand spanning five states and comprising nine fully functional facilities that treat addiction, mental illness and co-occurring disorders, brain wellness, and behavioral health programs for eating disorders.
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This CBJ/094 interview provides international insights from a thought leader with an informed, more comprehensive vision of institutional/structured mind care. Dr. Sharma lives in that world beyond labels, with an evolved awareness of the relevance of time - time to heal.  He seeks to humanize, to systematically support each patient's return to the reality of their lives with evolved hospital aftercare programs that address human complexity both in and after each hospitalization. 

His remarks emphasize his helpful responses to...
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The Reality Behind The Money Curtain
The budget is a moral document.
Tom Perez - Chair DNC, Former Sec of Labor
Ed Note: If the national budget is a moral document, consider the larger context of these budgetary observations: The everyday reality of managed care economics - in or out of the hospital - presses politically against moving forward with improvement to more informed, utilitarian, mind-understandings and applications. Questions of morality and ethics do arise.

Our global CBJ listeners may miss the entropic, dehumanizing point of hospital treatment challenges we see so often here in the US. Today the managed care industry works diligently every day to commoditize humanity into a process of label-magic, bean counting, and medication guesswork. Measurement criteria remain almost entirely focused upon a murky veneer of managed care beliefs that serve the interests of their company perspectives about moods, appearances, and cardboard classifications. The reality of multiple variables found in mind complexity, the soul of humanity, often remains untouched.

Too often the reality of Time serves the interests of the company, not the patient. Disconcerting is the additional fact that hired psychiatric gatekeepers imperiously facilitate this medical politic.

There's an obvious, yet unexamined, corrosive economic incentive that encourages ever higher levels of dehumanized imprecision. That economy of thought is based upon test and appearance protocols that today prove to be shockingly outdated. Far too often dismissive, less informed thinking supersedes critical thinking for more precise interventions. Time is wasted as managed care has, following years of entitlement, decided it is the manifest gatekeeper on the evolution and practice of psychiatric medical care here in the US - and, by default, globally.