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Senate advances bill to let health workers seek counseling outside workplace after suicide of Dr. Scott Jolley
Summary
First Substitute House Bill 78, presented by Sen. Plumb, would allow health-care workers employed in a clinical setting to obtain counseling and mental-health services outside their place of work to reduce stigma and confidentiality concerns; sponsor cited the suicide of Dr. Scott Jolley as impetus.
Senators voted to advance First Substitute House Bill 78, a measure intended to expand behavioral-health-treatment access for health-care workers by permitting them to seek counseling outside their employing health system.
Sponsor Sen. Plumb recounted the case of Dr. Scott Jolley, an emergency physician who died by suicide after struggling to find confidential mental-health care while employed by his…
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