Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health

This is a list of resources that will help you to integrate physical and behavioral health care. It includes AHA publications, executive dialogue series, webinars, conference calls, members in action publications, and other resources.

Executive Dialogue Series, Webinars and Calls

• Innovations in Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Services - Intermountain Healthcare Inc. (May 22, 2018)
• Montefiore Health System, Bronx, NY: Enhancing Behavioral Health Care with Smartphone Technology (April 11, 2018)
• Sanford Health: Enhancing your Workforce’s Impact and Patient Access to Behavioral Health through integration and technology - Register here (October 10, 2017)
• Improving Post-Acute Outcomes for Palliative Care and Geriatric Mental Health Patients (September 25, 2017)
• Mental Health Assessment and Triage Center:  Reducing ED Volume & Improving Access
• Collaborative Care: Integrating Behavioral Health and Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital (September 7, 2017)
• Reduce Readmissions & Avoidable ED Visits: Advocate Health Care's Medically Integrated Crisis Community Support (September 20, 2016)
• Lancaster General Health/Penn Medicine's Care Connections Program: Medical, Socioeconomic & Behavioral care for Complex Patients (June 21, 2016)
• Business Case for Integrating Behavioral & Physical Health Services (May 12, 2016)
• Integrating Behavioral Health: Queen of the Valley Medical Center, Napa, CA (March 2016)
• A Behavioral Intervention Team for Internal Medicine: Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Proactive, Multi-disciplinary Psychiatric Consultation Service (November 2015)

Members in Action

• Behavioral Health Suite In Ed Better Serves Patients Experiencing Behavioral Health Emergencies - WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital, Lebanon, PA (May 2019)
• Kansas City Assessment and Triage Center – Truman Medical Centers and Other Area Hospitals, Kansas City, MO (August 2018)
• Telepsychiatry Program – Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha, NE (July 2018)
• Psychiatric Stabilization Unit – Billings Clinic, Billings, MT (June 2018)
• Ray of Hope Behavioral Health Program – Cottage Hospital, Woodsville, NH (June 2018)
• Telepsychiatry Emergency Department Services – Acadia Hospital, Bangor, ME (March 2018)
• Telepsychiatry Program – PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center, Friday Harbor, WA (March 2018)
• Perinatal Depression Outreach Program - Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (February 2018)
• Behavioral Health Home - Cambridge Health Alliance, Somerville, MA (February 2018)
• Primary Care—Behavioral Health Integration - Cambridge Health Alliance Somerville, MA (February 2018)
• Turnaround Ranch - Freeman Health System, Joplin, MO (February 2018)
• Behavioral Health Integration - Livingston HealthCare, Livingston, MT (February 2018)
• Behavioral Health Integration – PeaceHealth Oregon West Network, Eugene, OR (June 2017)
• Rural Collaborative Improves Behavioral Health Care Access, Integration - Lafayette Regional Health Center, Lexington, MO (October 2016)
• SJH Behavioral Health Care – St. Joseph’s Health, Syracuse, NY (September 2016)
• Expanding Access Points for Primary, Dental and Behavioral Health – Lafayette Regional Health Center, Lexington, MO (September 2016)
• AccessHealth – Greenville Health System, Greenville, SC (August 2016)
• Medical Mission at Home – Ascension, St. Louis, MO (August 2016)
• Community Behavioral Health Capacity Building – Lee Memorial Health System, Fort Myers, FL (August 2016)

Other Resources

• HRSA: Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration
• Presentations From 2017 HHS Federal Partners Integrated Care Meeting
• Physical and Behavioral Health Integration: State Policy Approaches to Support Key Infrastructure, National Academy for State Health Policy (May 2017)
• Unlearning our helplessness – coexisting serious mental and medical illness,  New England Journal of Medicine (October 27, 2016)
• Closing the mortality gap – mental illness and medical care, New England Journal of Medicine (October 20, 2016)
• The Thrust to Integrate Behavioral Health Services in Medicaid, Center for Health Care Strategies (June 2016)
• Promising Practices to Integrate Physical and Mental Health Care for Medi-Cal Members, Center for Health Care Strategies (June 2016)
• Integrating Behavioral Health into Medicaid Managed Care: Lessons from State Innovators, Center for Health Care Strategies (June 2016)
• Medical homes may help improve care for people with mental health issues, To the Point (Commonwealth Fund)  (April 5, 2016)
• Managing depression a challenge in primary care settings, study finds,  Kaiser Health News (March 7, 2016)
• Creating a Culture of Whole Health: Recommendations for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center (February 2016)