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Kadison says that UHS has met this goal.
But according to a poll conducted by The Crimson, almost 30 percent of students who had been to UHS said they had to wait from one to two weeks for a first appointment. Thirty-nine percent of students who had been to UHS received their first appointment within two days...
Regardless of the changes UHS has made to accommodate more students, Hyman says a dramatic increase in the number of students seeking therapy since 1999 has necessitated yet another look at how the system can be improved, or expanded, to meet the demand.
While UHS has implemented some of the recommendations of the 1999 committee, the use of split care and episode of care demonstrates continued emphasis on keeping costs down—an emphasis that was a primary criticism in the 1999 report.
“Perhaps the most widely expressed complaint about UHS in general and [Mental Health Services] in particular is that managed care is imposing constraints...the perception among many administrators across the Harvard community that student care is governed by the bottom line rather than quality standards is cause...