Name
E04 - From Primary Care to Specialty Care: Lessons Learned from Implementation of Integrated Behavioral Health into Neurology Specialty Practices
Description

While behavioral health integration into primary care has been well-established, the process of integrating behavioral health programs into medical specialty clinics is an innovative endeavor to further serve the goal of making our communities healthier. This presentation describes the process and experience of establishing a new behavioral health program in outpatient Neurology specialty clinics over the first year of implementation. We review lessons learned about our model, growth, as well as patient and provider perspectives. Presenters will be available for questions and consultation for attendees interested in implementation of integrated behavioral health services in their healthcare system specialty clinics.

Date & Time
Friday, October 25, 2024, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Speakers
Courtney Legge, Psychologist, University of Colorado
Laurie Ivey, Director of Integrated Behavioral Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Laurie Ivey
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Complex Patient Care, Innovations, Medical, Quality improvement programs
Session Type
Concurrent
SIG or Committee
Medical
Location Name
Bowie B
Objective 1
Articulate the similarities and differences in behavioral health implementation in primary care and specialty medical care contexts.
Objective 2
Describe the unique challenges to integration of behavioral health services into specialty medical clinics, as well as strategies for overcoming them.
Objective 3
Outline steps for novel implementation for specialty care clinics.
Content Reference 1

Cheung, S., Spaeth-Rublee, B., Shalev, D., Li, M., Docherty, M., Levenson, J., & Pincus, H. A. (2019). A Model to Improve Behavioral Health Integration into Serious Illness Care. Journal of pain and symptom management, 58(3), 503–514.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.05.017

Content Reference 2

Shalev, D., Docherty, M., Spaeth-Rublee, B., Khauli, N., Cheung, S., Levenson, J., & Pincus, H. A. (2020). Bridging the Behavioral Health Gap in Serious Illness Care: Challenges and Strategies for Workforce Development. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(4), 448–462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2019.09.003

Content Reference 3

Goldman, M. L., Smali, E., Richkin, T., Pincus, H. A., & Chung, H. (2020). A novel continuum-based framework for translating behavioral health integration to primary care settings. Translational behavioral medicine, 10(3), 580–589. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz142