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National Wear Red Day, launched by the American Heart Association, is today, Friday, February 4th. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in women, and Wear Red Day, raises support and awareness for women’s heart health. PRMS is proud to support this important cause and wear red to work on this day. Learn more by visiting https://www.goredforwomen.org/en/get-involv ...

At PRMS, our mission extends to supporting the entire behavioral healthcare community and causes that enhance mental health and wellbeing in communities near and far. In advance of the holidays, PRMS employees came together to support our local community partner, Arlington Food Assistance Center, by collecting donations and assisting on-site. Read more about our experience belo ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing efforts to support the behavioral healthcare community and promote the organizations that work towards this mission, we are pleased to feature Dr. Brett Kramer, Resident-Fellow Trustee to the Board of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association and PGY-2 at the AtlantiCare Psychiatry Residency Training Program, as a guest blogger this month. Dr. Kramer refle ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to support mental healthcare and in the spirit of the season of giving, we are pleased to announce our annual holiday support of three organizations working to improve mental health and wellbeing in communities across the country this month – Child Mind Institute, Give an Hour, and World Central Kitchen. Each recognizes the unique challenges ...

*This piece is a re-print from the Spring Edition of the Journal of the Mississippi Psychiatric Association.   As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we are pleased to feature Doctors Chasity Torrence, FAPA, and Dustyn Baker, co-founders of the Psychiatry Outreach Program (POP) in Jackson, Mississippi, as guest bloggers this month, reflecting on the impact PO ...

In keeping with PRMS’ mission to support the greater behavioral health community, we invited Vasudev Makhija, MD, DLFAPA, founder and president of the South Asian Mental Health Initiative and Network (SAMHIN), and a past president of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association (NJPA), to share more about SAMHIN, its current projects, and future plans. PRMS is proud to support SAMHIN ...

PRMS team members traditionally wear red for American Heart Association’s (AHA) National Wear Red Day, which falls on the first Friday of February every year. And even though this year our group photo looks different from years past, PRMS is still wearing red virtually as we work from home to support and raise awareness for women's heart health. Learn more about AHA’s Go Red fo ...

There’s no complete picture of health without mental health. But while public health organizations address the threat of COVID-19 and other disease threats, a passionate group of volunteer psychiatrists in consultation with the United Nations (UN) is focused on mental health issues across the globe. Over the past four years, PRMS is pleased to have supported the United Nations ...

This #GivingTuesday, in our efforts to continue supporting organizations helping our communities affected by COVID-19, PRMS is pleased to announce our annual holiday donations to Arlington Food Assistance Center, Kraftlove, and NAMI’s Frontline Wellness Fund. These organizations, which consist of both local and national efforts, recognize the unique challenges the pandemic has ...

This July marks Minority Mental Health Month, and now more than ever, knowing that minority communities are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re using our platform to spread awareness, share educational tools, and show support. PRMS is proud to announce our donation this month to the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation in an effort to support this cause. Ac ...