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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 iconPrimary Care,  Opioid,  Family Medicine,  Population health

Neftali Serrano
April 8, 2024 by Neftali Serrano

Mea Culpa: What My Generation Of Integrated Care Leaders Ignored

5 Minute Read. As a seasoned professional in integrated care, I’ve been part of a pioneering generation that sought to blend medical and behavioral health services to improve patient outcomes, particularly with the advent of the Primary Care Behavioral Health service delivery model (PCBH). Reflecting on this journey, it’s clear that while we’ve made significant […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconmeasurement based care,  Quality Improvement,  Population health,  PCBH

Matthew P. Martin
February 15, 2024 by Matthew P. Martin

Integrating Social Medicine: Are We Ready to Evolve?

5 minute read Is the Healthcare System Ready? Our current integrated care models break down silos between physical and behavioral health, allowing for comprehensive screening, warm handoffs, care coordination, and streamlined referrals. Many patients, though, have unmet social, material, AND behavioral health needs. Here are some examples. •           A 40-year-old man experiencing homelessness struggles to […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPopulation health,  Primary Care,  community health workers,  Social medicine

Neftali Serrano
March 31, 2022 by Neftali Serrano

Filling Integrated Care Positions Challenges Health Clinics

5 Min Read. Filling that integrated care position at your clinic feel tough? You are not alone. Positions for mental health professionals of all types in primary care have grown in the last few years (see our job board and our map) and the options for mental health professionals have also expanded with telehealth uptake, […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconworkforce,  Primary Care,  Population health,  PCBH

Matthew P. Martin
January 20, 2022 by Matthew P. Martin

Charting a Better Approach to Rural Health Care: New Tools from AHRQ

3 minute read Integrated healthcare is most important for communities with limited access to medical and/or behavioral health services. By making those services available in one place and training a care team to collaborate, vulnerable patients are more likely to get the right treatment at the right time. According to a new report, integration makes […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconrural medicine,  Population health

Map showing sites across the United States that offer integrated care services.

Neftali Serrano
September 30, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

How widespread is integrated care?

5 Minute Read This is a first. To our knowledge no systematic effort to account for the number of practices providing integrated behavioral health services in the United States has been undertaken, other than efforts to identify colocated providers in a geographical space. To be sure the data collected has its limitations and this blog […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconworkforce,  behavioral health,  integrated care,  Primary Care,  Population health

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