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Neftali Serrano
April 16, 2025 by Neftali Serrano

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Dear Mr. Kennedy, First, thank you for bringing urgency and passion to the nation’s conversation on health and the chronic disease epidemic. Your desire to reimagine our approach to well-being is one that we share as a 30-year-old upstart association rooted in the fundamental idea that our health system is disintegrated. At the Collaborative Family […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconPopulation health,  Family Medicine,  Opioid,  Primary Care

The modern care team is depicted with some members not yet fully at the table.

Neftali Serrano
January 9, 2025 by Neftali Serrano

It’s Going To Take More Work: A Call to the Integrated Care Community in 2025

If you are a clinician you know the feeling. It’s that moment in a care process with a patient where you could do more or choose to do less. You battle internally to decide what to do and ultimately you know you can’t live with yourself if you choose to do less. That’s our moment as […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconFamily Medicine,  PCBH,  Primary Care,  integrated care

Matthew P. Martin
August 29, 2024 by Matthew P. Martin

Why Culture Matters: Insights from an Integrated Care Internship

Five minute read “She was visibly upset while she talked about the confrontation with her brother,” I said. “And then suddenly she stood up, arms wide open, asking for a hug.” “And what did you do?” my clinical supervisor asked. “What else could I do? I gave her a hug!” My supervisor smiled. “I want […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconFamily Medicine,  Primary Care,  training

June 12, 2024 by Jen Thomas, MD

Calling All Docs! Code BH: Behavioral Health

7 minute read From the fifth floor window of the resident lounge, I could see the downtown Chicago skyline in the distance from Hinsdale Hospital. The Hinsdale Family Medicine Residency building was across the street from the hospital I would call home for the next 3 years, connected by an underground tunnel that came in […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconFamily Medicine,  Primary Care,  mental health,  team

Matthew P. Martin
May 7, 2024 by Matthew P. Martin

From Intimidation to Integration: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Primary Care

5 minute read “Welcome to day one of your integrated care practicum. The first step you’ll take is to purchase two books and begin reading them right away. OK, let’s talk about Centricity!” Fall semester of 2009. I am a new student in the Medical Family Therapy doctoral program at East Carolina University (ECU). My […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconFamily Medicine,  Primary Care,  medical family therapy,  Professional identity

Neftali Serrano
October 26, 2022 by Neftali Serrano

Behaviorists In Family Medicine Deserve An Upgrade

5 Minute Read Family medicine residency programs have long had behaviorists as part of the educational experience for physicians-in-training, but the role has not kept up with the many changes in training and healthcare over the last few decades. And so you have behavioral science faculty with unclear and often conflicting mandates for their work, […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconintegrated care,  Family Medicine,  mental health,  residents

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 iconFamily Medicine,  Primary Care,  integrated care,  COVID-19

Barry J. Jacobs
April 23, 2019 by Barry J. Jacobs

In Search of the Briefest Family Caregiver Eval

As befits his majestic name, Brian Duke threw down the gauntlet. “If you really want to help health systems do a better job of supporting family caregivers,” said the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and the current System Director of Senior Services for Main Line Health in suburban Philadelphia, “then you better […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconFamily Medicine,  Brian Duke,  University of South Florida

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