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The concept of behavioral health integration is not new in primary care clinics. There are, however, new efforts to integrate behavioral health into OB/GYN clinics. Obstetric and gynecologic settings often see patients at key transition times in their lives such as onset of sexual activity, decisions about when and how to become a parent, transitions to parenthood, menopause and more.
Patients and clinicians have many complicated decisions to make, but information is often unclear or inaccessible. Patient decision support tools aid in making evidence-based and value-congruent decisions in the face of uncertainty and facilitate conversations between patients and their providers. Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Evidence-based Policy, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center, have created an online resource for the use of patient decision support tools - learn more about the new Decision Support Toolkit.
Who are the Change Management (CM) practitioners in an organization? Like the definition of what change management is, this answer is varied...
The Tri-County Behavioral Health Providers Association (TCBHPA) has been the avenue for the region’s mental health and addictions providers to work together to strengthen our system of care for greater community health. Learn more about them and their Member Directory that enables partners, consumers and other providers to get a quick look at who is available and what services that each member provides.
Not only did Sherman County Medical Clinic's District Administrator, Caitlin Blagg, worry about meeting Must Pass Measure 1.C.0, which states that PCPCHs must “provide continuous access to clinical advice by telephone” for Patient Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) recognition, she was also concerned about how meeting this measure would impact her already busy single provider and staff.
In late September the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute, in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority’s Transformation Center, is launching a library of behavioral health integration resources - including virtual clinic visits, topical videos and webinars, toolkits, screeners, checklists, and more - to support integrated care implementation and quality improvement.
What do people really mean when they talk about Change Management? If you search “change management,” you will come up with as many as 70,700,000 results, which is a lot to sort through! Let’s start by broadly defining Organizational and Individual Change Management.
Not only did Sherman County Medical Clinic's District Administrator, Caitlin Blagg, worry about meeting Must Pass Measure 1.C.0, which states that PCPCHs must “provide continuous access to clinical advice by telephone” for Patient Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) recognition, she was also concerned about how meeting this measure would impact her already busy single provider and staff.
Workforce projections in Oregon estimate “a 38% increase in additional primary care providers by 2030 to maintain the current rate of utilization” (Petterson, 2013). However, high-functioning teams that utilize registered nurses (RNs) to manage some conditions can help narrow this gap. Enter: the Nurse Visit.
In 2015, CareOregon and its provider partners set out to both build and sustain capacity of integrated behavioral health services in primary care in the Portland Metro region to address the total health of our members beyond traditional primary care.
