For years, mental healthcare and primary care were independent of each other. If you visited a primary healthcare provider with mental illness symptoms, they'd refer you to a mental healthcare ...

ThedaCare, a four hospital community health system based in Appleton, Wisc., is a leading healthcare delivery system and is nationally recognized for its continual process improvement efforts. The ...

A collaborative service model between a managed care organization and an affordable housing provider reduced acute care use and costs. Objectives: This study evaluated a collaborative service model ...

Young adults gather for their therapy session. Under collaborative models, counseling centers allow community providers office space on campus to facilitate specialized programs, such as IOP’s.

Existing conventional treatments and the current model of care do not adequately address the complex challenges of mental illness Available conventional treatments and the dominant model of mental ...

Modest spending on integrated mental health services in primary care, facilitated by use of new collaborative care billing codes, did not increase overall health care costs. Objectives: The ...

Emerging collaborative care models that include evidence-based CAM therapies will more adequately address complex challenges of mental illness In a previous post I commented on the limitations of both ...

Advocates of a decades-old model that integrates mental health care into primary care say expanded access through the team-based system could save 14,000 lives annually. However, less than 1% of the ...

—Usual care, colocation, or collaborative care? That was the question raised by a team of New York-based experts, who tracked healthcare resource utilization patterns as well as cost estimates for ...

A four-year, $270 million agreement between the province and the organization that represents doctors will help ensure all New Brunswickers have a primary care provider and access to care within five ...