{"id":17172,"date":"2019-10-10T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/great-west-life-offering-new-mental-health-services-medavie-launching-digital-health-platform-136747"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:30:19","slug":"great-west-life-offering-new-mental-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/great-west-life-offering-new-mental-health-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Great-West Life offering new mental-health services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/51619028_DoctorNote-123RFxl.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"123RF.com\/bacho12345\" title=\"Great-West Life offering new mental-health services\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 10, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>Great-West Life Assurance Co. is launching a collaborative health-care program that&nbsp;draws on clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts to help&nbsp;group benefits plan members get the right diagnosis, and provide them with an action plan and guidance through the mental-health system.<\/p>\n<p>The Best Doctors\u2019 mental health navigator services from Teladoc Health Inc. is available&nbsp;to plan members whose group benefits plans already include traditional Best Doctors\u2019 services, including Great-West Life\u2019s own employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/mental-health-benefits-on-the-rise-in-canadian-workplaces-survey-136762\">Mental-health benefits on the rise in Canadian workplaces: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA growing number of people are struggling with mental-health issues, having limited or no access to the mental-health supports they need,\u201d said Ryan Weiss, vice-president of group customer products and experience at Great-West Life, in&nbsp;a press release. \u201cThrough Teladoc Health, we can increase access to specialized care, which has the potential to be life-changing, especially for those who find their condition is not improving despite a current diagnosis or treatment plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis furthers our purpose in improving the mental, physical and financial well-being of Canadians, and extends our long-standing commitment to championing mental-health issues in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/great-west-life-offering-new-mental-health-services-medavie-launching-digital-health-platform-136747\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 10, 2019 Great-West Life Assurance Co. is launching a collaborative health-care program that&nbsp;draws on clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts to help&nbsp;group benefits plan members get the right diagnosis, and provide them with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}