Carbon emissions savings: Did you know...

• In August 2007, the NARBHA telemedicine network saved over 8,000 miles of driving and over 140 hours of drive time by 10 psychiatric providers.
• This saved 2.9 tons of CO2 from being added to earth's atmosphere.
• That's 30.5 tons of CO2 not added to the atmosphere each year.
• This doesn't include all the staff who save countless hours of drive time throughout the 62,000 miles of Northern Arizona by using the telemedicine network for meetings.

• NARBHA to report client satisfaction survey results at American Telemedicine Association 2008 annual meeting
• New clinical use for NARBHAnet: In October 2007, an American Sign Language interpreter began coming to NARBHA headquarters in Flagstaff each week, where she videoconferences into psychiatric sessions in Kingman and Bullhead City to provide ASL interpretation services between patient and doctor.
• NARBHAnet adds new sites and connections
• NARBHA presents on telemedicine at the Colorado Behavioral Health Council annual meeting, Oct. 5, 2007
• Federal rebates for FY06/07obtained for clinical sites
• NARBHA telepsychiatry featured in Social Work Today, Jan.-Feb. 2007 issue
• NARBHA telepsychiatry mentioned in Healthcare Informatics, February 2007 issue
• NARBHA telepsychiatry featured in the New York Times, June 8, 2006
• NARBHA telepsychiatry featured in Flagstaff paper, the Arizona Daily Sun, June 2, 2006 (34K Word doc reprinted with permission of the Arizona Daily Sun)
• NARBHA's telemedicine network featured in May 2006 JCAHO Advisor (470K PDF reprinted with permission of JCAHO Advisor for Behavioral Health Care Providers, C&R Publications, Brookdale Plaza, 750 Washington Ave., Ste. 7, Revere, MA 02151)
• NARBHAnet mentioned in September 2005 East Valley Tribune article on Arizona telemedicine