The Mental Health Training Network provides career development and training opportunities as well as resources and consultation to those who provide care for older adults. Our goal is to improve experiences and outcomes associated with geriatric mental health.
The integration of physical and mental health care is an important aspect of the Medicaid health home model. Collaborative care programs are one approach to integration in which primary care providers, care managers, and psychiatric consultants work together to provide care and monitor patients’ progress. These programs have been shown to be both clinically-effective and cost-effective for a variety of mental health conditions, in a variety of settings, using several different payment mechanisms.
Membership Legislation passed and signed into law in 2016 (SB 6519) authorized the creation of a Telehealth collaborative, with the intent of broadening reimbursement opportunities for health care services and to provide guidance, research and recommendations for the benefit of professionals providing care through telemedicine in Washington State.
Integrating behavioral health care with primary
care is now widely considered an effective strategy
for improving outcomes for the many millions of
Americans with mental or behavioral health conditions.
Keywords: Psychiatry, Treatment, Mental, Team, Collaborative, Primary, Integration, Behavioral, Care, Health
The Practice Transformation Support Hub is pleased to partner with Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA Director of the AIMS Center and Jeff Hummel, MD, MPH, Medical Director at Qualis Health, for our first Hub learning event for 2017: “Bi-Directional Health Integration: Improving Care for All Patients."