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Building Effective Primary Care / Behavioral Health Clinical Teams: Strategies for Successful Co-Location of Services in a California SAMHSA PCBHI Demonstration
This presentation will underscore the importance of building a robust integrated clinical team to serve patients/clients with mental health, substance use and primary care challenges. Lifelong Medical Care, a local public primary care organization, provides primary care services "on-site" at a behavioral health program for adults with severe mental illess. Services are coordinated with behavioral health psychiatrists and mental health case managers. The delivery site serves a multiracial population in an economically depressed urban setting. This presentation will explain how to build a culture of collaboration and will offer specific business practices that support care coordination and close clnical teamwork between behavioral health and primary care staff. Individual and team competencies and characteristics that impact successful co-location will be shared. Performance Improvement Project findings describing the impact between integrated teamwork and client outcomes related to outreach, engagement, treatment and improved health status will be presented.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsClinical medicine applied in public health
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Define models of collaboration within integrated primary care behavioral health service environments.
Discuss co-location as a strategy that supports the effective coordination of patient/client care and impacts positive client outcomes.
Describe individual and team competencies and characteristics required for successful co-location.
Keyword(s): Chronic Disease Management and Care, Behavioral Research
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Freddie Smith, MPH is the Project Director for the Alameda County (California) PBHCI Site where he has overall responsibility for the planning, operations and evaluation of the “Promoting Access to Health (PATH) Project.” Freddie has over 30 years experience managing primary care and behavioral health programs in public health and community behavioral health settings. He currently works in the Office of the Medical Director, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.