The Collaborative to Improve Behavioral Healthcare Access (CIBHA) is a quality improvement learning collaborative to support the integration behavioral and primary healthcare and thereby improve access to services. The primary objectives are to build local capacity for best practice treatment of depression and other common behavioral health conditions and to identify strategies that will produce sustainable systemic change in the Greater New Orleans region. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we provide training and technical assistance to primary care, mental health and addictive disorder professionals who want to practice quality collaborative care and improve outcomes in treating behavioral health and other chronic disease conditions.

 CIBHA works to assist health care professionals and organizations to:

• Integrate primary care, mental health and addictive disorder services.


• Use evidence-based practices to manage depression and common behavioral health conditions.


• Undertake quality improvement activities that advance patient treatment outcomes and increase access to services.


• Identify and implement financial and non-financial incentives that support integration and sustainability.

 Training sessions and technical assistance activities are designed to help organizations meet National Committee for Quality Assurance Physician Practice Connections – Patient-Centered Medical HomeTM standards and Primary Care Access and Stabilization Grant (PCASG) criteria for quality improvement financial incentive payments. CIBHA activities will span the duration of the PCASG grant, ending in 2010.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Our efforts focus on improving both the health of everyone in America and their health care—how it’s delivered, how it’s paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families. We are guided by a fundamental premise: we are stewards of private funds that must be used in the public’s interest. Our greatest asset isn’t our endowment; it’s the way we help create leverage for change.

We create leverage by building evidence and producing, synthesizing and distributing knowledge, new ideas and expertise. We harness the power of partnerships by bringing together key players, collaborating with colleagues, and securing the sustained commitment of other funders and advocates to improve the health and health care of all America.

For more information please contact:

Sarah Hoffpauir, LCSW-BACS

Director

shoffpauir@lphi.org

Ph: 504-301-9845

Jayne Nussbaum, MPAff

Project Manager

jnussbaum@lphi.org

Ph: 504-872-0781

Collaborative to Improve Behavioral Healthcare Access (CIBHA)

Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI)

1515 Poydras, Suite 1200, New Orleans, LA 70112

Ph: 504-301-9800

Fax: 504-301-9801

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