[PC-BH-Integration] Outcomes on Integrated Care Models

[Rizzuto, Lori Ann]

And if I can ask for any outcomes data (financial and clinical) on
inpatient collaboration on a med/psych (complexity intervention unit).

 

We've started outpatient behavioral medicine services with both
co-located and referral models...still too early to tell how well it's
working financially; now we're evaluating med/psych units.

 

Thanks,

Lori

 

 

Lori Ann Rizzuto, LCSW

Atlantic Behavioral Health

Manager, Division of Behavioral Medicine

 

Atlantic Health

475 South Street

Morristown, New Jersey 07962

phone:     (973)660-3184

fax:          (973)660-9054

loriann.rizzuto at atlantichealth.org

 

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[mailto:pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com] On Behalf Of Helen
L. Coons, Ph.D.
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:10 AM
To: pc-bh-integration at lists101.his.com; pc-bh-integration at nccbh.net
Subject: [PC-BH-Integration] Outcomes on Integrated Care Models

 

I am looking research based articles on the benefits of either
integration or collaboration of psychologists and other providers in
primary care and other medical settings.  Any cost offset data would be
useful, and especially benefits to patients such as increased
satisfaction with care.  There are some data on patient satisfaction in
among women receiving integrated care at academic health centers.
References and/or abstracts from your own and others' work would be
greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

HLC

 

Helen L. Coons, Ph.D., ABPP

Clinical Health Psychology

Women's Mental Health Associates

215-732-5590 office

hcoons at verizon.net

www.womensmentalhealthassociates.com

 

 

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[mailto:pc-bh-integration-bounces at lists101.his.com] On Behalf Of Emily
Neufeld
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:36 AM
To: pc-bh-integration at nccbh.net
Subject: [PC-BH-Integration] patient seclusion

 

I am looking for suggestions or solutions related to patient
seclusion....

 

During our last JCAHO visit, the surveyors criticized us for not having
adequate verification that patients in seclusion were continuously
monitored.  We were using a log for each incident that included the
signature of the staff person who continuously monitored the patient.
The surveyors argued that this would be too easy to falsify.  We have
installed buttons on the outside of the seclusion rooms that staff press
while monitoring patients (which produce a computer printout) as
evidence of the monitoring. 

 

Our issue is how to verify that the patient is monitored after the first
hour.  JCAHO allows video observation beginning in the second hour of
seclusion, but we need some system in our nursing station to verify that
the person is watching the monitor.

 

I am very interested in hearing more about how other organizations are
dealing with this or similar issues, and also successful
seclusion/restraint reduction practices.

 

Thanks.

Emily Neufeld
Director of Quality Assurance
Madison Center
403 E. Madison St.
South Bend, IN  46617
574/283-1295
fax 574/288-5047

emily at madison.org



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