Northwestern Medicine, West Health, and the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute have announced a new collaboration that will make accessing care to evidence-based mental health services faster and easier for primary care patients across Northwestern Medicine.

This $8.6 million multi-year initiative from West Health will establish the Northwestern Medicine West Health Accelerator, which will provide access to comprehensive psychiatric services for primary care practices throughout Northwestern Medicine, expanding access to mental health care and promoting earlier intervention.

Through a 20-year experiment, investigators have shown how different trees adjust their strategies for acquiring nutrients through their roots as soil warms with climate change. The research is published in Global Change Biology.

Larger pay increases and better benefits could help keep K-12 teachers in the teacher workforce, finds a new, nationally representative RAND survey. Researchers examine how teachers’ pay increases, benefits, and major household expenses are related to their intentions to leave and compare teachers’ survey responses with those of similar working adults. They focus their discussion on Black teachers because of the worrying changes in these teachers’ perceptions of their pay and the negative consequences of their attrition on students.