It's not just Hoag Hospital that will sink $1 billion into expanding its hospital in Irvine. Other major health care brands are poised to build facilities to house hundreds of new hospital beds.
President Joe Biden's administration plans to try to force private insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health services as they do for physical health services, improving upon a well-known hole in America's health care system, according to the White House.
Lifestyle medicine practice is most effective when the specific lifestyle changes promoted align with patients' chronic diagnoses as well as their socioeconomic characteristics.
As the nation's population increasingly skews older, primary care physicians such as internists and family physicians can help address potential mental health needs by integrating behavioral health care into their practice.