The Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has been approved for a $9.3+ million federal grant to train clinicians on how to better care for patients with schizophrenia.
The three-year grant from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was awarded to John Kane, M.D., the head of the Feinstein Institute's Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience. Dr. Kane and his team will utilize the funds to educate nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physicians, and case managers on new mental health protocols and health technology resources aimed at delivering more-effective treatments to people suffering from schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder that affects approximately 2.2 million Americans. Symptoms usually develop in men in their late teens and early twenties and in women slightly later. In rare cases, schizophrenia can be diagnosed in childhood.