Evaluation of the Healthcare Cost Offsets of Mend: A Family Systems Mental Health Integration Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Distelberg ◽  
Marjorie Castronova ◽  
Daniel Tapanes ◽  
Jesse Allen ◽  
David Puder
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Healthcare Cost ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Integration Approach ◽  
Mental Health Integration ◽  
Cost Offsets

Successes With Implementation of Primary Care--Mental Health Integration

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Heideman ◽  
Douglas Olson ◽  
John P. Billig ◽  
Beret A. Skroch ◽  
Laura L. Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Integration

Strengthening Core Competencies in VHA Primary Care-Mental Health Integration

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas H. Olson ◽  
Beret A. Skroch ◽  
Kathlene A. Scholljegerdes ◽  
Samuel M. Hintz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Primary Care Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Integration

scholarly journals Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Integration in Research, Policy, and Practice

PLoS Medicine ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. e1001434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Y. Collins ◽  
Thomas R. Insel ◽  
Arun Chockalingam ◽  
Abdallah Daar ◽  
Yvonne T. Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Mental Health Integration

scholarly journals Improving medical residents’ utilisation of integrated mental health in primary care

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e001388
Author(s):  
Jenna Palladino ◽  
Deirdra Frum-Vassallo ◽  
Joanne D Taylor ◽  
Victoria L Webb
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Home ◽  
Medical Resident ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Mental Health Integration ◽  
Integrated Mental Health ◽  
Over Time

BackgroundIntegration of mental health services allows for improved prevention and management of chronic conditions within the primary care setting. This quality improvement project aimed to increase adherence to and functioning of an integrated care model within a patient-centred medical home. Specifically, the project focused on improving collaboration between Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) and the medical resident Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport,New York (VAMC Northport).MethodThe project used increased education, training and relationship building among the medical resident PACTs, and the establishment of regularly occurring integrated team meetings for medical and mental health providers. Education of residents was measured with a self-assessment pre-training and post-training, while utilisation was measured by the percentage of patients currently on a PACT’s panel with at least one PC-MHI encounter in the last 12 months (known in VAMC Northport as PACT-15 metric).ResultsTwo resident PACTs that received both training and weekly integrated meetings increased their utilisation of integrated mental health services by 3.8% and 4.5%, respectively. PACTs that participated in training only, with no regular meetings, showed an initial improvement in utilisation that declined over time.ConclusionsTraining alone appeared beneficial but insufficient for increased integration over time. The addition of a regularly occurring integrated weekly meeting may be a critical component of facilitating sustained mental health integration in a primary care medical home model.

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