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Amid pervasive workforce shortages and a growing demand for services, Optum Behavioral Health is working to reimagine the way behavioral health care is delivered. CEO Katherine Hobbs Knutson, who joined the company about a year ago, is leading the charge.
“That divide between … what exists in the field versus what people actually have access to is a wide gap that I want to … narrow that so that we can start to make a dent in this real epidemic that we have in our society,” Hobbs Knutson said.
She made those comments last month during the Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech Summit 2021, a virtual event put on by a group of behavioral health entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and designers.