WH Directs VA To Use Telehealth In Suicide Prevention Plan

The White House’s new National Strategy for Suicide Prevention unveiled Tuesday (April 23) directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to deploy telehealth to support comprehensive community-based suicide prevention and implement suicide prevention services as a core component of health care. The prevention strategy includes updating the federal approach to the issue for the first time in more than a decade and launching a federal action plan with more than 200 steps that the Biden administration hopes to take over the...