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Perinatal Support Washington

The first weeks and months of being a new parent can be overwhelming. Perinatal Support Washington offers help navigating the mental health system, they provide information and referrals to local providers, and can complete a postpartum wellness plan.

Person-Centered Customer Service Workshop

Person-centered customer service focuses on enhancing individuals’ health care experience and harnessing our own empathy, compassion and professionalism to reflect back to those we serve. It requires introspection and honest assessment of our organization and culture to improve how we serve by seeing through other individuals’ eyes and walking in their shoes. Customer service is a commitment to help and treat others as we would like to be treated along the continuum of the health care experience at our organization.

Population Health for Front-Line Providers: A Data Driven Approach

In the webinar, Population Health for Front-Line Providers: A Data Driven Approach, Jeff Hummel, MD, MPH and Hub coach, Carolyn Brill, CPHIMS, CHP discussed population health management for a provider audience. This data driven approach includes case examples of depression in people with diabetes and efforts to improve their clinical outcomes. This webinar will explore:

Postpartum Support International

Dedicated to helping families suffering from postpartum depression, anxiety, and distress.

Power to Decide: One Key Question

One Key Question One Key Question® is the groundbreakingly simple way to transform how we support women’s power to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant. One Key Question® encourages primary care providers and others to routinely ask women about their reproductive health needs.

PreManage Implementation Toolkit: A Guide for Washington State Behavioral Health Agencies

PreManage Implementation Toolkit: A Guide for Washington State Behavioral Health Agencies PreManage Implementation Toolkit is a care management tool that combines information from participating healthcare partners, including hospitals and emergency departments, primary care practices, and behavioral health agencies, and synthesizes the information into brief, actionable information about individual clients. This toolkit is designed to walk an agency through the process of preparing for and implementing PreManage. It is designed to be used by behavioral health agencies.

Preventing Pregnancy-Related Mental Health Deaths: Insights From 14 US Maternal Mortality Review Committees, 2008-17

A 2021 report in Health Affairs describing the characteristics of pregnancy-related deaths due to mental health conditions from 2008-2017. This report includes data from 14 state Maternal Mortality Review Committees: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.

Primary Care Integration: Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center, Case Example

Development of an Integrated Program Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center (LWC) strives to be a hub of services to its clients and to treat the whole person through primary care integration. Between 2011 and 2013, LWC participated in Washington State’s Healthy Communities, Washington Healthcare Improvement Network in order to develop a system to manage care for clients with complex medical needs and to strengthen behavioral health agency collaboration with primary care providers.

Problem Solving Treatment for Patients with Depression

ABOUT PROBLEM SOLVING TREATMENT Problem Solving Treatment (PST), also known as Problem-Solving Treatment – Primary Care (PST-PC), teaches and empowers patients to solve the here-and-now problems contributing to their depression and helps increase self-efficacy. Developed for use by medical professionals in primary care settings, an extensive evidence base shows that PST can effectively be provided in a wide range of settings and with a variety of providers and patient populations.

Problem-Solving Counseling for Depression

Problem-Solving Treatment (PST) is a short-term form of psychotherapy developed for primary care and community settings. It is also known as structured problem solving and focuses on improving coping skills. This therapy has been proven effective for the conditions most commonly treated in primary care – depression and anxiety. PST helps patients: Identify problems Come up with realistic solutions And make an action plan to implement them.

Promoting Chronic Disease Management: A guide for behavioral health care teams

In the new world of integrated care, behavioral health providers are becoming increasingly important in their clients’ chronic disease management strategies. While the symptoms and treatment of chronic diseases can vary, there are some common steps that behavioral health providers and care team members can take to assist clients in understanding, accepting, and managing their chronic disease.

Psychiatry Consultation Line

The Psychiatry Consultation Line, PCL, offers prescribers from primary care clinics, community hospitals, emergency departments, substance use treatment programs and municipal and county jails the opportunity to consult with a UW Psychiatrist about adult patients (18+) with mental health issues or regarding general questions related to mental health and psychiatric care. The service is explicitly to provide “curbside consultation,” but the UW psychiatrist provides a brief, written summary of the recommendations sent to the calling provider via encrypted email.

Relationship Between Behavioral Health and Chronic Diseases

Behavioral health and physical health are profoundly interlinked. A person experiencing severe mental illness or a substance use disorder is at greater risk for developing chronic physical health conditions than the general population because of the illness itself as well as potential consequences related to treatment.1 Furthermore, high smoking rates in this population are a major contributing risk factor in the development of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer.

Reproductive Health Access Project Abortion Resources

These resources mobilize, train, and support clinicians to help make sexual and reproductive health care related to abortion accessible to everyone.

Resilient Generation - Upstream

Upstream is working to expand economic opportunity and mobility by reducing unplanned pregnancy in the U.S. Their approach empowers women to decide when and if they want to become pregnant in order to improve economic and health outcomes for parents, children, and society. This resources covers the different problems surrounding this topic and the solutions taken by Upstream to these issues.

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit - 2018

The SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit - 2018 equips health care providers, communities, and local governments with material to develop practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. It addresses issues for health care providers, first responders, treatment providers, and those recovering from opioid overdose.

SAMHSA WEBINAR Care Coordination for Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPS) webinar series

Innovative and Integrated Treatment Models: Increasing Impact of Opioid Treatment Programs through Care Coordination Webinar 2: Case Studies from the Field

Six Building Blocks

A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care This website introduces the Six Building Blocks, provides tools and resources for improving care, and offers implementation guidance. The Six Building Blocks can help anyone who is interested in improving the care of patients using long-term opioid therapy.

Suicide Screening Questions Toolkit

Offered by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) tool is a set of four brief suicide screening questions that takes 20 seconds to administer. Questions are organized by the medical setting in which it will be used.

Supporting Patients With Depression

Supporting Patients With Depression The Supporting Patients With Depression tip sheet provides information to providers to support patients with with depression who are prescribed antidepressants with support supplementation. It was created in collaboration with the five MCOs in Washington, the Health Care Authority, Department of Health, Bastyr and Consejo Counseling. The resource presents evidence regarding the association of nutritional support for mental health treatments, and is an important aid for providers serving these patients.

The Center to Advance Palliative Care

The Center to Advance Palliative Care, site provides health care professionals with the tools, training, and technical assistance necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs in hospitals and other community based health care settings. The Center is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services for people facing serious, complex illness.

The Great 8 Cardiovascular and Diabetes Healthy Heart Behaviors

ALL “GREAT 8” advice sheets (8 pages) The Great 8 Cardiovascular and Diabetes Healthy Heart Behaviors are recommended healthy behaviors for patients. Be active Eat well Practice wellness Check your blood pressure Understand your blood sugar numbers Know your cholesterol levels Steer clear of smoking/vaping Follow your doctor's recommendations

Transitional Care Management Medicare Billing FAQ

This resource contains frequently asked questions about billing the medicare physician fee schedule for Transitional Care Management Services. Category: chronic disease prevention and control

Upstream Project Timeline - Washington

Upstream USA Project timeline for recruitment and Quality Improvement.

Upstream Washington State Plan Overview

Overview of Upstream The Problem of Unplanned Pregnancy Unplanned Pregnancy in Washington Upstream’s Model Our Progress in Delaware Our Plan for Washington Project Scope and Timeline Evaluation Approach Advisory Committee Mandate

Using Pharmacies to Access Naloxone: A guide for community-based agencies

Using Pharmacies to Access Naloxone The University of Washington's Center for Opioid Safety Education developed Using Pharmacies to Access Naloxone: a guide for community-based agencies. The guide gives an overview of how agencies can work with pharmacies to provide naloxone directly, easily, and at low cost, to specific clients at risk of overdose. The Center also has available:

UW Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line (Perinatal PCL)

Perinatal PCL is a free telephone consultation service for health care providers caring for patients with mental health and co-occurring substance use problems who are pregnant, postpartum, or planning pregnancy. Any health care provider in Washington State can call.

UW Perinatal Psychiatry Consultation Line for Providers (PPCL)

Previously known as PAL for Moms, PPCL is a free, state-funded program providing perinatal mental health consultation, recommendations, and referrals for Washington state providers caring for pregnant or postpartum patients. Any health care provider in Washington State can call.

Value-Based Payment Practice Transformation Planning Guide

The Value-based Payment (VBP) Planning Guide is designed to assist organizations in pacing the needed changes, gaining buy-in and building needed infrastructure in order to promote a systematic approach toward transformation. The Planning Guide aims to support your organization in:

Washington HealthCareCompare

Washington HealthCareCompare The website and database were created by legislation passed in 2015 (RCW 43.371) as a push from Governor Inslee to increase price transparency and public accountability. The website allows consumers to search for price of over 100 procedures and treatments and quality of providers and hospitals. The Washington State Common Measure Set results are also produced on the site for ACH and by insurance coverage.

Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (WSHPCO)

Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (WSHPCO) The Washington State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (WSHPCO) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization committed to taking a leadership role in improving end-of-life care through education and advocacy efforts. WSHPCO provides information and referral services to the public and supports the professional services at Washington state’s hospice and palliative care organizations. WSHPCO holds an annual conference at Lake Chelan in October. They also host regular educational webinars

Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel: Maternal Deaths 2017-2020

Key findings include: Maternal mortality rates in Washington have historically been lower than national rates. However, critical disparities persist by race and ethnicity. In Washington, the Panel found 80 percent of pregnancy-related deaths were preventable.

Washington State Perinatal Collaborative

Washington State Perinatal Collaborative, WSPC, is a volunteer group of public and private organizations, agencies and individuals committed to improving care and outcomes for the state’s pregnant mothers, newborns, and infants.

Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being

A 30-page Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being offers a foundation that workplaces can build upon to make workplaces engines of well-being, and show workers that they matter, that their work matters, and that they have the workplace resources and support necessary to flourish.

Youth Suicide Prevention

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center has developed an online course that is free and self-paced for health, behavioral health, and mental health clinicians as well as students in clinical training programs.