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Neftali Serrano
December 7, 2022 by Neftali Serrano

Primary Care’s Moonshot Program For The Next Decade

5 Minute Read There is no single issue in the movement to integrate physical and behavioral health system that trumps the workforce shortage and training problem. Primary care needs a moonshot initiative to bridge that gap. I have some ideas. They are mine alone – I can’t speak for all of the Collaborative Family Healthcare […]

Category iconCEO's Desk Tag iconPrimary Care,  behavioral health,  workforce,  data

Matthew P. Martin
June 24, 2022 by Matthew P. Martin

Medicare Mental Health Workforce: Adding LMFTs and LMHCs

In January 2021, Representative Mike Thompson introduced the Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2021 (H.R. 432) that, among other things, would authorize Medicare payment for covered mental health and substance use services provided by licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFT) and licensed mental health counselors (LMHC. The bill was referred to the Subcommittee on […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconAdvocacy,  workforce,  policy

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 iconPCBH,  Population health,  Primary Care,  workforce

Matthew P. Martin
November 5, 2021 by Matthew P. Martin

New Federal Health Workforce Strategic Plan: What does it mean for the integrated care field?

5 minute read The Department of Health and Human Services recently released their new health workforce strategic plan. There is a lot of good information here. I’ll share a few thoughts below. The plan is worth looking over and will undoubtedly inform future federal spending in workforce development. The new plan has four goals: expand […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconEducation,  workforce,  training

Neftali Serrano
December 17, 2020 by Neftali Serrano

Here’s What You Were Talking About In 2020

10 Minute Read Our conversations tell us a lot about who we are, so we thought it would be a good idea to review our top list serve conversations for 2020. Before those of you who are not members of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) stop reading, let me convince you as to why […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  workforce,  Primary Care,  integrated care,  behavioral health

Matthew P. Martin
October 29, 2020 by Matthew P. Martin

What Big Bird Can Teach Us About Integrated Care

5 minute read. Original post available here. Starting and sustaining a movement in healthcare is tough business, unless there is a plan and resources for dissemination. The movement to integrate behavioral health services into primary care began in diverse places, but now appears to have serious momentum. The challenges facing integration today are many and include […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconintegrated care,  workforce,  public 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 iconbehavioral health,  workforce,  Population health,  Primary Care,  integrated 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 iconPrimary Care,  resiliency,  integrated care,  behavioral health,  workforce

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