Q&A: 'It's unraveled some risks toward anxiety and depression'.

MENTAL depression risk factors; RISK assessment; HEALTH services accessibility; EXECUTIVES; HOSPITAL building design & construction; MENTAL health services; MENTAL health; PRIMARY health care; CHILDREN'S hospitals; ANXIETY; WORKING hours; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; COVID-19 pandemic; INTEGRATED health care delivery; CHILDREN

An interview with Dr. Tom Shanley, president and chief executive officer of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, is presented. Topics discussed include concerns over children with undiagnosed, unmanaged, and untreated mental health disorders, Lurie Children's situation in terms of dealing with the capacity, staffing, and care delivery challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has created within its behavioral health units, and integration of behavioral health within primary care.