AIMS

Advanced Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS)

• https://aims.uw.edu
• The University of Washington's AIMS Center develops, tests, and helps implement collaborative care and bi-directional integration strategies. We provide implementation support, coaching, research collaborations, education, and workforce development.
• This organization focuses on the Collaborative Care (CC) Model

Principles of Collaborative Care

Team Structure

Building the Business Case

Financing Strategies

• AIMS Center Cheat Sheet on Medicare Payments for Behavioral Health Integration Services
• Basic Coding for Integrated Behavioral Health
• Financial Modeling Workbook
• Broadly Defining Value for Your Model of Integrated Care

Behavioral Interventions

Resource Library

Behavioral Health Care Manager Essentials

• The behavioral health care manager coordinates the overall effort of the group and ensures effective communication among team members. Behavioral health care managers are typically nurses, psychologists, social workers or licensed counselors

Collaborative Care Implementation Guide

• This guide is an introduction to the process of implementing collaborative care, from the crucial first step of understanding what it is to monitoring outcomes once collaborative care is in place. Each step contains learning objectives along with materials to help you achieve them.

Step 1: Lay the foundation:

Understand Collaborative Care

Assess Organizational Readiness

Create a Shared Vision

Develop a Sustainability Plan

Identify Your Champions

Step 2: Plan for clinical practice change

Build Your Team

Create a Clinical Workflow

Identify a Behavioral Health Patient Tracking System

Make an Action Plan

Step 3: Build your clinical skills

Care Team Training (for ALL members of the care team)

Behavioral Health Care Manager Training

Primary Care Provider (PCP) Training

Psychiatric Provider Training

Step 4: Launch your care

Educate Your Patients

Address Unanticipated Challenges

Monitor Implementation Process and Clinical Outcomes

Relapse Prevention Planning

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