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Neftali Serrano

Neftali Serrano
August 25, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

We Can End Racism In Our House

5 Minute Read There is a necessary connection between our work in integrating behavioral health and medicine and the work of rooting out racism in health care. That connection lies at the root of what those of us who call ourselves champions of integrated care are doing: we are reforming a fragmented and too-often ineffective […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCLAS Standards,  health inequities,  anti-racism,  integrated care,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
July 29, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Don’t Quit: We Can Outlast All Of This

3 Minute Read I’ve been tempted to throw my laptop/ iPhone across the room in recent weeks. This coronavirus thing and the political and economic chaos it has wrought, not to mention the morbidity and mortality that accompanies it have pushed me to the brink. And many healthcare professionals have intimated to me that they […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconintegrated care,  workforce,  behavioral health,  resiliency,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
May 29, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Transitioning Again? Reopening Primary Care

2 Minute Read: It seems as if 2020 is the year of perpetual transition as we adjust and learn, adjust and learn. Our last few weeks as a membership has been spent thinking about returning to in-person visits (or not) and concurrently thinking about how our personal lives mirror this transition as states “re-open.” Below […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  integrated care,  wellness,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
May 22, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Settling Into The New Normal

3 Minute Read CFHA members have worked hard in the last 9 weeks responding to the various challenges posed by the pandemic. These challenges are not going away, however, a great deal of progress has been made in adapting clinical delivery to telehealth, figuring out the economics of all of this and working on the […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag icontelehealth,  COVID-19,  integrated care,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
May 18, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

This Is The Golden Age For Behavioral Health: Will It Become The Golden Age For Primary Care?

This blog is a follow-up to a recent panel presentation co-sponsored by Comagine, The Institute for Primary Care Behavioral Health and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association. The chat for the presentation is here. Video is here or just scroll down. What started out as deep consternation as the COVID pandemic hit in March quickly turned […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  telehealth,  COVID-19,  behavioral health

Neftali Serrano
May 5, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Looking Towards The Long-Term Implications of The Pandemic

The realities of the pandemic are settling in among our membership and more of our conversation is turning to the long-term implications. We are concerned about our fellow healthcare providers, our patients and the economic realities that healthcare is facing along with the rest of the world. At the same time there is a sense […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  coronavirus,  integrated care,  wellness,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
April 23, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

The Upside Down World of COVID-19

You know things are weird when behavioral health visits are outpacing primary care visits (at least as far as percentage increases) at many health centers. This is one of several paradoxes of the COVID-19 era along with the finding that many (if not most?) patients are preferring phone visits to video consults – which is […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  coronavirus,  behavioral health,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
April 20, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Settling Into The Quarantine Period

The second week of April saw our community settle into the COVID-19 era with better established telehealth practices and a better sense of what the near-term would hold for the provision of healthcare. This knowledge did little to diminish the uncertainty of the long-term outlook for healthcare teams, particularly for primary care where the economic […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  integrated care,  wellness,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
April 13, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

COVID-19: Week 4 In Review

The first week of April saw our community solidify workflow changes to telehealth and continue to note the toll of the pandemic financially across the healthcare sector. Although less content overall was shared on our listserves compared to the initial weeks of the crisis it was clear community members were hard at work figuring things […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconADHD,  COVID-19,  behavioral health,  integrated care,  Primary Care

Neftali Serrano
April 6, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

COVID-19: Week 3 In Review

The last week of March saw diminished COVID-19 information on our list serves as members turned to their new clinic workflows and new normals. Large questions still remained about reimbursement for telework, workflows for integrated care teams and the sustainability of the current situation. As a service to members and to the general public we […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  integrated care,  COVID-19,  coronavirus

Neftali Serrano
March 30, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

COVID-19: Week 2 In Review

As a service to members and to the general public we will be posting weekly updates of our conversations and resource sharing efforts here. Because these are taken from email conversations, examples provided may refer to single clinics or situations. We hope this inspires, encourages and educates everyone as to the work that integrated care […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  coronavirus,  integrated care

Neftali Serrano
March 23, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

COVID-19: Week 1 In Review

CFHA members (click to join) as usual stepped up to the plate to support each other and to begin to collectively frame a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a service to members and to the general public we will be posting weekly updates of our conversations and resource sharing efforts here. Because these are […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  COVID-19,  integrated care,  Family Medicine

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Neftali Serrano
March 11, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

How To Be A Good Team During COVID-19 Season

We all have COVID-19 on the brain and it got me thinking about the role of high functioning integrated care teams in responding to the pandemic. Turns out, its pretty important. Here are my top 4 ways that integrated care teams can respond adaptively to the COVID-19 crisis. If you have some ideas of your […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconteams,  COVID-19,  coronavirus,  behavioral health,  integrated care

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