From Neighboring Institutions to Collaborators: A Joint Effort to Improve Integrated Care

• By: Julie Chipman, LCSW, MPA Jean-Marie Bradford, MD M. Goretti Almeida, MBA
• July 1st, 2016
• behavioral health, care coordination, health outcomes, healthcare integration, integrated care, Medicaid, primary care, serious mental illness (SMI)
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The integration of primary and behavioral health has become a major focus of healthcare restructuring across the country in the past several decades. New partnerships, emerging from a historically siloed system, share the triple aim of improving health status, containing costs and enhancing service...

Changing Physician Roles and Relationships in Integrated Care

• By: Jeanie Tse, MD Jason Cheng, MD Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• October 1st, 2015
• behavioral health, cardiometabolic health, collaborative care, integrated care, primary care, psychiatrists, scope of practice, serious mental illness
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Unacceptably high mortality and morbidity among people with serious mental illness have prompted a call to action for behavioral health providers from all disciplines. Included among these providers are physicians and other prescribers, who have an important part to play in the integration...