Integrating Primary and Behavioral Health Care: Transforming Outcomes through Integrated Care Models and Design

Historically, a lack of coordination between primary and behavioral health care has led to barriers to access, poor health outcomes, and increased healthcare costs, particularly for underserved communities. When these
systems operate in silos, patients often face fragmented services that can be particularly harmful to individuals experiencing severe mental health and addiction disorders with complex comorbid chronic medical conditions. Effective integration bridges critical gaps, leverages expertise, improves continuity of care, and enhances patient outcomes and care satisfaction while promoting health equity and decreasing the cost of care.

Our Proven Process

AHP focuses on supporting care coordination models that satisfy state and federal mandates and align with the unique geographic (rural, urban, frontier) and socioeconomic characteristics of the populations you serve. Our consulting process, fully adaptable to each organization, integrates the industry’s best practices and incorporates a range of solutions tailored to your organization’s needs.

Care organizations face a myriad of complex challenges when working to integrate primary and behavioral health care, including:

• Complicated funding and payment systems
• Implementing cultural and workflow changes required to integrate multidisciplinary, cross-departmental, and community-partnered teams
• Maintaining a quality workforce
• Developing processes to communicate and document integrated care plans, interventions, referrals, and medication changes
• Evaluating and analyzing large and variable data sets to demonstrate savings, patient outcomes, and
  determining necessary adjustments to improve upon current practices

AHP’s Proven Pathway to Integrated Care

AHP provides support and tools to plan for, implement, improve, and advance your integrated care program. Using best practices and proven processes of planning, implementation, and evaluation, we empower clients to access the resources, information, data, and support they need to deliver high-quality, effective, and patient-centered services for those they serve.

Strategically aligned with your specific needs:

1. Assess your organization’s integration readiness, current practices, and future goals. We listen.
2. Plan and set goals to identify your needs. This may include helping you find the most effective integrated care model for your organization, analyzing data, setting strategic planning goals, or supporting grant writing to fund your integrated care initiative. We have walked in your shoes and bring a wealth of experience.
3. Develop a tailored plan to address your needs and challenges, working closely with your team to help
   connect your clinic data and outcomes with the information you need for financial and strategic planning. We help guide you to the most effective practices.
4. Implement your custom plan of action. We walk with you every step of the way.
5. Evaluate and support ongoing quality improvement and strategic planning to ensure your integrated care model is both cost-effective and outcome-driven, powered by data insights and measurable impact. We help you make your data actionable.