{"id":288392,"date":"2026-02-09T05:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288392\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:29:08","slug":"mental-health-collaborative-event-to-take-place-at-sheridan-college-sheridan-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288392\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health Collaborative Event To Take Place At Sheridan College \u2013 Sheridan Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheridan Memorial Hospital in partnership with the Sheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation will host \u201cBuilding a Mental Health Collaborative\u201d on Wednesday, February 11th, at Sheridan College.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event aims to foster partnerships and collaboration among individuals, nonprofits and businesses that work in mental health in Sheridan and Johnson counties.<\/p>\n<p>While the half-day event includes panel discussions and workshops for mental health professionals regarding access to care, challenges and resources, the event will conclude with a public presentation from keynote speaker Dr. Eric Arzubi at 5:30 p.m. in the Whitney Academic Center atrium.<\/p>\n<p>Arzubi is a physician consultant with the EmPATH Consulting team, a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, CEO of Frontier Psychiatry, and assistant clinical professor at the Yale Child Study Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he led the creation of Montana\u2019s first EmPATH unit at Billings Clinic, personally mentored by EmPATH founder Dr. Scott Zeller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unit served approximately 15 patients daily, reduced psychiatric emergency wait times from 10 hours to under four hours, and significantly decreased hospitalization and readmission rates.<\/p>\n<p>Arzubi presented at the inaugural EmPATH Summit in 2025 and now leads a telehealth practice delivering more than 5,000 monthly visits across Montana, Idaho and Alaska.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His 2025 Journal of the American Medical Association Network (JAMA) open-published research, demonstrates 38% lower hospitalization rates and 18% fewer ER visits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He successfully introduces innovative solutions across the behavioral health continuum of care, with a proven track record of scaling solutions in underserved communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also led the creation of Montana\u2019s first psychiatry residency training program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ads.sheridanmedia.com\/www\/delivery\/ck.php?n=acd6beff&amp;cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avw.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheridan Memorial Hospital in partnership with the Sheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation will host \u201cBuilding a Mental Health Collaborative\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-288392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}