Objective: Previous guidelines and planning documents have identified the key role primary
care providers play in delivering mental health care, including the recommendation from the …

Background: Integrating behavioral health and primary care is beneficial to patients and
health systems. However, for integration to be widely adopted, studies demonstrating its …

Little is known about the contributions of practice facilitators in settings aiming to deliver
integrated behavioral health and primary care. This scoping review identifies peer-reviewed …

Background In a large statewide initiative, New York State implemented collaborative care
(CC) from 2012 to 2014 in 32 primary care settings where residents were trained and …

Introduction Programs and services available through the aging services network can help
community-dwelling older adults to age in place but are often not discussed in routine …

Purpose Availability of mental health services is limited in the rural United States. Two
promising models to reach patients with limited access to care are telehealth referral and …

Abstract Introduction: We developed the Practice Integration Profile (PIP) to measure the
degree of behavioral health integration in clinical practices with a focus on primary care …

Introduction: Behavioral health (BH) integration has been proposed as an important strategy
to help primary care practices meet the needs of their patient population, but there is little …

Separating the care of people with emotional and behavioral problems into physical and
mental compartments and organizing 2 systems of care to meet their needs has been known …

Valid measures of behavioral health integration have the potential to enable comparisons of
various models of integration, contribute to the overall development of high-quality care, and …