Category: Behavioral Health Page
Addressing the Behavioral Health Shortage Through Care Collaboration
Every year, around 45 million adults in the United States experience a mental health condition. Additionally, The US spends over $200 billion and $35 billion per year on mental disorders and substance use disorders, respectively. This white paper discusses the shortage of behavioral health professionals, government initiatives, the role of collaboration, and success stories from organizations who have improved clinical and financial outcomes by prioritizing care coordination.
Navigating Care Coordination for Behavioral Health Patients
Navos Mental Health Solutions works to provide patients struggling with mental and behavioral health conditions and substance use disorders with comprehensive care. Collective's platform enables Navos to better track patients, gain valuable insights into patient...
Coordinating ED and Behavioral Care for Better Patient Outcomes
Sturdy Memorial Hospital is a small, independent hospital in Southeast Massachusetts. That means finding beds or funding for behavioral health patients can be a challenge. Sturdy Memorial implemented a care coordination initiative as a way to help minimize ED boarding...
Collective Medical Helps Providers Coordinate Better Behavioral Health Care
Northwest Physicians Network is dedicated to helping patients get the help they need most—while addressing over-utilization of emergency services from behavioral patients who felt they had nowhere else to turn. Find out how Northwest Physicians Network was able to...
Collective Medical Helps Providers Manage Behavioral Health Care
The Massachusetts Medicaid healthcare system, known as MassHealth, provides healthcare to one quarter of the state population—at a cost of over 40% of the state budget. Of these patients, many have significant mental, behavioral, medical, and/ or social needs, which...
Collective Medical Helps Behavioral Care Network Coordinate to Improve Patient Outcomes
Mid-Valley Behavioral Care Network (BCN) case managers, psychiatrists, and therapists saw the inefficiencies facing behavioral health when trying to coordinate patient care with the broader care team. Realizing the drawbacks of calling hospitals searching for the...
How better collaboration slowed over-utilization of Pierce County’s EMS resources
Could a patient-centered collaboration between an independent physician association (IPA), healthcare organizations and first responders put an end to the over-utilization of emergency resources? That was the high-stakes question in 2015 facing Northwest Physicians...