Integrating Primary Care into Assertive Community Treatment

• By: Jeanie Tse, MD Institute for Community Living (ICL) Gertie Quitangon, MD Community Healthcare Network (CHN)
• October 1st, 2019
• assertive community treatment, health disparities, home-based healthcare, integrated care, multidisciplinary teams, primary care access, psychiatric care, serious mental illness
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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...