Employee AccessCollaborative to Improve Behavioral Health Access
What is CIBHA?
A learning collaborative supporting
- Integration of primary care, mental health and addictive disorder services.
- The use of evidence-based practices to manage depression and common mental health conditions.
- Quality improvement activities that advance patient treatment outcomes.
How is behavioral health training relevant to primary care practice? The reality is that
- People are more likely to seek behavioral healthcare in a primary care setting.
- Specialty mental health care is not always available.
- Primary care clinicians are well trained for common problems but need help with more complicated conditions like emotional problems.
Who may participate? All Primary Care Access and Stabilization Grant (PCASG) awardees are eligible to apply and participate in this LPHI- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) initiative.
CIBHA Technical Assistance Planning Questionnnaire
CIBHA Events
CIBHA Financial Sustainability Workgroup
Who should participate? Clinic finance officers, billing/coding specialists, clinic managers and providers representing FQHC, school-based, primary care, mental health, and addiction treatment settings.
Workgroup Objectives:
- Develop a collaborative plan to sustain financial incentives to integrate behavioral health and primary care services.
- Develop a framework to collect data and track economic level changes in clinic practices related to the PPC-PCMH and chronic care model.
- Identify technical assistance required from our consultants, Dr. Harold Pincus and colleagues.
Timeline: Biweekly working lunch meetings beginning June 1, 2009, 11:00 – 1:00 pm, at LPHI at 1515 Poydras, Ste 1200, New Orleans, LA 70112. Completion goal is August 31, 2009
Please contact Sarah Hoffpauir or Jayne Nussbaum for more information or to confirm your participation.