Here is a local report about integrating brief behavioral health care interventions with primary care. The benefit to individuals and society, when patient needs are identified and addressed in a coordinated system, is tremendous. Even brief interventions are extremely cost effective and help with problem identification that is otherwise overlooked and untreated.
Thankfully, the report notes this coordination of care as another gap in the current for profit billing system for health care delivery! We could truly help people much less expensively with such coordination within systems. I developed a similar brief follow-up process for high risk behavioral care patients referred to employment. With great success, I showed that brief intervention (often via phone) could help individuals maintain employment. (It is what employers want much more than tax credits in order to hire the formerly incarcerated- the current emphasis of the city program) The benefits of treating the needs of the whole person is much greater than expensive treatments for individual problem areas. It should make sense intuitively to most people! http://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/A_side_of_behavioral_counseling_with_your_visit.html Glenn ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
