The Evolving Health and Social Service Landscape: Promise for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• January 1st, 2018
• co-occurring disorders, community-based care, healthcare reform, integrated care, serious mental illness (SMI), social determinants of health, substance use disorders (SUD), treatment access
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A year has passed since the United States Congress enacted sweeping legislation to address deficiencies in our national behavioral health service infrastructure. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) and 21st Century Cures Act, both passed by the 114th Congress in 2016, authorized a...

Stopping the Hospital Revolving Door: A Pathway Home to Stable Community Life

• By: Danika Mills, MSW, LCSW, MPS, LCAT, CCM Barry Granek, LMHC Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC)
• July 1st, 2017
• care coordination, care transitions, community reintegration, independent living skills, medication adherence, psychiatric discharge, serious mental illness (SMI), social determinants of health
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A not-for-profit organization formed by behavioral health (BH) community agencies, Coordinated Behavioral Care (CBC) operates one of NYS’s largest Health Homes (HH) and has formed an IPA to deliver integrated outcomes-oriented care. The many care managers who work with our HH members often face...

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...