Behavioral Health Integration
QC recognizes the need for healthcare providers to address both behavioral and physical health issues, and to better integrate the behavioral and physical healthcare needs of patients in order to improve health and healthcare. With funding from the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF) to promote behavioral-physical health integration by leading an effort to develop and implement a set of performance measures reflecting behavioral health integration. In partnership with Aroostook Mental Health Services, We are in the middle of a 3-year initiative to expand this effort to behavioral and physical health providers statewide. The goal of this “Behavioral Health Metrics System” initiative is to identify a set of measures of behavioral health integration that ultimately will be widely used and publicly reported by providers statewide to drive improvements in behavioral-physical health integration, much as physical health measures are currently reported through the Pathways to Excellence program.
Effective Strategies to Integrate Behavioral Health into Primary Care
NEW ARTICLE: Evolving Models of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care
Maine Quality Counts and the Maine Practice Improvement Network teamed up this week to offer a webinar on effective strategies to integrate behavioral health into primary care. Considered a core component of the patient centered model of care, behavioral and physical health integration is being implemented in health care settings across the state... Read more...
BHI Primary Care Field Test SurveysThe following document contains surveys for Non-pediatric and Pediatric Primary Care Sites. The tools are in field testing through April 2011. Click here to access file: BHI_Primary_Care_Survey_02-01-11_LL.docx
BHI Levels of Integration MatrixThe following matrix, developed from: Doherty, McDaniel, & Baird (1996). Five levels of primary care/behavioral healthcare collaboration. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, is proposed for site self assessment: Behavioral_Health_Integration_Survey_levels_of_integration.docx
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Behavioral-Physical Health IntegrationQC recognizes the need for healthcare providers to address both behavioral and physical health issues, and to better integrate the behavioral and physical healthcare needs of patients in order to improve health and healthcare. Behavioral Health Integration MetricsThe following measures were identified during Year 1 for field testing with the participating sites: BHI_Metrics__112410_field_test.doc Behavioral Health Integration Measurement Project UpdateThis three year, MeHAF funded project is choosing measures of value and outcome that will be publically reported to help consumers, providers and payers better understand the impact of integrating the provision of physical and mental/behavioral health services. Efforts are being made to ensure the chosen measures are aligned with work going on elsewhere in the country. Piloting of measure collection will begin this fall.
The Core Advisory group met June 16th
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