Integrated Care

Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation provides a detailed, thoughtful, and experience-based guide to the complex and potentially overwhelming process of implementing an integrated care program. The advantages of integrated care from both the clinical and administrative perspectives are many, including better detection of illness, improvement in overall health outcomes, a better patient care experience, flexibility in responding to policy and financial changes, and an emphasis on return on investment. The book addresses the emerging framework of core principles for effective integrated care, reviews the most up-to-date research on implementation, and presents practice-based experience to serve as a guide. This information is useful in both traditional integration of behavioral health into general medical settings (often primary care) or integrating general medical care into a specialty mental health or substance use treatment setting. Because administrators, clinicians, policy makers, payers and others need guidance in determining what effective implementation looks like, the authors offer a three-part examination of the key components of an implementation strategy and explore the elements essential for success.

ContributorsForewordIntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I: A Design for SuccessContributorsForwardIntroduction/PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I: Setting the Model Up For SuccessChapter 1. The Core Elements of Effective Design and ImplementationChapter 2. Organizational Leadership and Culture ChangeChapter 3. Team Dynamics and CulturePart II: The Provider Role: Changing PracticeChapter 4. Behavioral Health Provider EssentialsChapter 5. Primary Care Providers in Integrated SettingsChapter 6. The Psychiatric ConsultantPart III: Operational ConsiderationsChapter 7. Policy and Regulatory Environment Chapter 8. Financing Integrated CareSupplement -- Performance and Outcome Measures