With two maternal mental health bills on the California governor’s desk and one already signed, a Los Angeles hospital’s work to screen new mothers for depression could soon become a statewide model.
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles worked hard to bring up its low rate of screening postpartum women for depression. If signed, one of the new bills would require obstetric teams to do the same.
The hospital’s screening success is largely due to the dogged persistence of clinical psychologist Eynav Accortt, who also testified in support of the statewide screening bill.
“We are working to normalize mental health as part of postpartum health,” Accortt said. “It doesn’t just affect the mothers. It affects the entire family. It affects the spouse. It affects older children. It affects extended family.”
[For more of this story, written by Lauren M. Whaley, go to https://www.centerforhealthjou...ning-moms-depression]
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