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In rural Georgia, telemedicine provides new option for children’s mental health
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Telemedicine is being proposed as one of the state’s methods to improve mental health care for children.
In more than half of Georgia counties, parents can’t find nearby mental health services for their children. A deep lack of mental health professionals is one of a litany of problems identified by advocacy groups and state agencies for years, and that shortage is laying a hard road before parents in outlying communities in Georgia, some of whom have to drive hours to the nearest metro area for care.