1. Clarify Overlapping and Distinct Goals 2. Leverage the CCBHC Funding to Enhance PCBH Capacity 3. Enhance Care Coordination Across Both Models 4. Address Workforce Challenges 5. Leverage Technology and Data 6. Communicate a Unified Vision to Staff and Leadership 7. Culture, culture, culture! References Reiter, J. T., Dobmeyer, A. C., & Hunter, C. L. […]
Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services. Their feedback can help identify gaps, refine innovations, and ensure that enhancements truly improve patient-centered care. By integrating patient perspectives, healthcare systems can more effectively tailor and assess improvements in the 4Cs, leading to more responsive, efficient, and […]
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The SWAPA Framework One of the key tools my husband’s team uses is SWAPA, which stands for Soil, Water, Air, Plants, and Animals. This framework evaluates land health by examining the relationships between these five elements. Each one is important on its own, but together, they reveal the full picture of an ecosystem’s well-being. As […]
Integrated Care Models Improve Outcomes for Co-Occurring Diabetes and Depressive Symptoms People with diabetes are about twice as likely to develop depressive symptoms. Further, people with diabetes report that their diabetes care teams rarely (less than 50% of the time) assess their mental health generally or their depressive symptoms more specifically. When people present with […]
One other thing that made this meeting memorable was the appearance of T-shirts that express loyalty to a model of integrated care. It started with the PCBH T-shirts, but by the end of the conference I was seeing CoCM T-shirts as well. This made literal the process that I have been thinking about for several […]
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