Mental health conditions are the leading underlying cause of pregnancy related deaths, and these conditions are treatable. The truth is that women who get treatment can and do recover. That’s why Texas PeriPAN is here for you. Texas now has a real time, evidence based program to help you meet the standard of care your patients need and deserve through clinician to clinician consultation, continuing education, vetted referrals, and resources for clinicians and patients.

We want to help you build your capacity so you feel more confident treating mental and behavioral health conditions. The Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network is state funded. Does not cost you or your patients anything. Fits into your day and is easy to use. If this sounds like something that would be helpful to you, it’s because it’s built by and for clinicians like you.

Texas PeriPAN offers real time evidence driven clinician to clinician consultation services for doctors, psychologists, nurses, midwives, medical residents and other health care professionals. I had a patient who I needed to make a switch in their mental health plan, and I just needed to get on the phone with a reproductive psychiatrist, and it was just a joy to be able to call my local PeriPAN hub, get a phone call back from a psychiatrist within 15 minutes, and get my questions answered.

And I collaborated with that psychiatrist, for the betterment of my patient. It was just easy to use and so accessible. Mental health distress is one of the most common things that any of us will experience in our lifetime, and it is the number one most common complication of pregnancy. You can call PeriPAN for support to increase your capacity so that we are screening sooner, so that we are delivering that care as soon as possible for women.

Our team of reproductive mental health experts is here for you in real time right now. Anyone from your office can call to enroll. You can even sign up multiple clinicians at once and it only takes a few minutes. Once enrolled, you can just call or text to begin a consultation. Our team will contact you in five minutes or less, and you can talk to a psychiatrist within 30 minutes, or text us at a time to call you back.

PeriPAN offers free schemes on a range of maternal mental health topics, many requested by clinicians like you. PeriPAN also offers you individualized referrals and resources within one business day. We save your office time by finding and vetting resources and referrals based on your patient’s insurance location and other needs. So let us do the legwork. No call is too small and call as often as you like, whether for the same patient or many.

The perinatal period is pivotal for mental health. It can be a time of immense joy or a time of great stress. Maternal anxiety and depression are very common complications of childbirth and good mental health for mothers is foundational to the mental health of their children and families. Together, we can work to help the nearly 50,000 Texas mothers who experience depression after giving birth each year, and the 1 in 5 postpartum women experiencing any type of mental health condition.

With PeriPAN, you’ll feel more confident and get the support you need to meet the standard of care your patients need and deserve. Call us or visit our website to learn more and start using PeriPAN.