[PC-BH-Integration] Looking for FQHCs that have successfully funded Integrated Health Care mental health positions

[Glenn, Lisa [PriCare]]

We are doing it in a collaboration with Austin/Travis County MHMR.  You
can email me separately and I will send you the contact information for
the supervisor for the program, Andres Guariguata, to talk specifics
with him.
Thanks.
 

Lisa B. Glenn, M.D. 
Senior Medical Director 
Austin Travis County Community Health Centers 
City of Austin Community Care Services Department 
Phone (512) 972-4467 
Fax (512) 972-4433 
Pager (512) 802-9234 
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Subject: [PC-BH-Integration] Looking for FQHCs that have successfully
funded Integrated Health Care mental health positions


All --

I am looking for any Federally Qualified Health Centers that have found
ways to fund mental health positions within their clinics within an
Integrated Health Care model.

In 2006, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, based in Austin, Texas,
awarded five Integrated Health Care Initiative grants to five health
care groups across Texas: one to the Parkland Health and Hospital
System's Bluitt-Flowers Health Center and East Dallas Health Center in
Dallas, Texas; a second to People's Community Clinic in Austin, Texas; a
third to the Project Vida Health Center in El Paso, Texas; a fourth to
Texas Children's Pediatric Associates' Ripley House in Houston, Texas;
and the fifth to the Valley Primary Care Network's four member clinics
(the Brownsville Community Health Center in Brownsville, Texas; the
Community Action Center of South Texas in Rio Grande City, Texas
[unfortunately dropping out of the Initiative this month]; Neustra
Clinica Del Valle in Pharr, Texas; and Su Clinica Familiar in Harlingen,
Texas). For information on this Initiative, see the Hogg Foundation's
website at http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/programs_ihc.html
<http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/programs_ihc.html> ,
http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/programs_ihc_program.html, and
http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/programs_ihc_links.html
<http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/programs_ihc_links.html> .

I am a Clinical Care Manager at Su Clinica Familiar
(http://www.suclinica.org/) in Harlingen, Texas (satellite clinics in
Brownsville and Raymondville, Texas). We joined the Initiative in the
second year of the three year grant, starting 05-01-2007 with four
1/2-time Care Managers (a MSW; a BSW; a LBSW; and myself, a LPC, LMFT,
LCSW).

We are expanding the IMPACT model beyond addressing late life depression
first to address adult anxiety as well as adult depression (including
pregnant patients); second to address pediatric ADHD and other
externalizing disorders; and third to address pediatric anxiety and
depression.

I have rapidly become convinced that we have to address the
business/funding aspects of our Integrated Health Care program earlier
rather than later for our program to become a hard-wired, core component
of Su Clinica Familiar?s ongoing operation. Even though our leadership
and staff are fully committed to the program, it must be seen as
permanent and not time-limited for everyone to really get all-the-way
behind it.

I don't believe we can bill under the Health and Behavior
Assessment/Intervention codes 96150-96155 here in Texas. I am in awe of
Intermountain Health Care and their websites
(eg,http://intermountainhealthcare.org/xp/public and
http://intermountainhealthcare.org/xp/public/managehealth/patiented/ment
alhealth/resources.xml).

-- John

John Young, LPC, LMFT, LCSW
Clinical Care Manager, Wellness Program
Su Clinica Familiar, Harlingen, Texas
Office Phone (956) 365-6000 x 1310
Cell Phone (956) 371-4401






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