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Integrating Health and Behavioral Health: Consider All the Dimensions
A discussion of integrated care should actually start by redefining the term itself. Integrated care is commonly considered the weaving together of physical and behavioral health, but experience has shown that this definition limits the discussion to two dimensions. What dimension is missing? What...
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The Critical Role of Relationships in Integrated Health Care Delivery
Integrated care models are now increasingly being adopted across all medical settings, including behavioral health. Their potential to help health care systems attain the triple aim of improving service quality, promoting population health and reducing costs has led policy makers to incentivize...
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Evaluation of a Continuum-Based Framework for Behavioral Health Integration in Small Primary Care Practices
Introducing behavioral health services into small primary care settings enhances patient-centered care and provides higher-quality care and greater treatment options for patients with behavioral health conditions such as depression and anxiety. For small practices already facing the burden of...
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Integration: A History of Promise
The healthcare system is moving towards integration. However, the passageways for integrating behavioral health with primary care are not so simple or straightforward. Whether one pursues full integration, colocation, or a digitally advanced referral network, providers and health plans are seeking...
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Integrating Primary Care into Assertive Community Treatment
The great health disparities and poor health outcomes experienced by people with serious mental illness are even more significant for the people served by Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams. Individuals are eligible for ACT services if they have been hospitalized more than four times in the...
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Helping Transition Age Youth and Young Adults Achieve their Goals
As with all young adults, a central focus for Transition Age Youth and Young Adults (TAYYA) ages 16 to 25 with serious mental health challenges is building a life in the community. Doing so requires completing their education and getting satisfying work. If these young people have spent serious...
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Integration: Some Progress and a Need for More
Every contact with a medical provider is an opportunity to help someone address their addiction. And so, it is important for everyone who works in a healthcare setting to recognize addiction, understand the neurobiology, know the standard treatments and be familiar with the resources available...
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Integrated Care: A Model of Service in Behavioral Health
This article is part of a quarterly series giving voice to the perspectives of individuals with lived experiences as they share their opinions on a particular topic. The authors of this column facilitated a focus group of their peers to inform this writing. The authors are provided with services by...
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Peer Workforce Integration in Integrated Healthcare
Advancing workforce integration is a key objective for NYC Peer and Community Health Worker Workforce Consortium. The NYC Peer and Community Health Worker Workforce Consortium at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene strengthens understanding about the Peer/Community Health Worker (CHW)...
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The Physician Assistant Bridges the Gap in Integrated Care
A growing aging population, healthcare reform, earlier diagnosis of disease states and an overall sicker population with more comorbidities than ever before has created the need for a more collaborative relationship between primary care and behavioral health care providers. The traditional...
