Your practice is starting a long-term effort to increase and improve the integration of behavioral health services in its clinical practice of primary care.
Because it is a long-term effort, it’s not just a project but an “initiative” – something that will take planning, design, and implementation, sustained for months and perhaps years.
The goals of this Integrating Behavioral Health (IBH) initiative are to:
Improve the health of patients who have complex conditions, such as one or more co-existing medical and behavioral problems, by making it easier to access behavioral health services in the practice.
Integrate behavioral health provider(s) into the flow of practice operations so that medical and behavioral providers can work together.
Include other members of the practice as an interprofessional team to care for complex patients.
Where Do I Start?
This IBHPC website is your entry point and will give you access to the:
Start Up Guide, which will help you access the education modules and REDCap survey tools.
Ensure you have access to the materials you need, when you need them
Answer questions regarding the materials and assist with setbacks
Support you and your practice as you implement the IBH-PC intervention
Contact your coach for support as you review the Start Up Guide and the Leadership Guide, and to schedule an introductory meeting. This meeting should be scheduled early in your start up process.
Your IBH-PC Coach can be contacted through IBHPC-UVERMONT@med.uvm.edu.