Initiative successfully implemented several evidence-based and promising addiction care models across multiple medical settings, including an inpatient addiction consult team, a low-threshold bridge clinic, peer recovery coaches, and office-based addiction treatment nurses.
Describes core competencies that convey the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes of complex care practitioners and teams to improve care for people with complex needs.
Demonstrates that intensive outpatient care programs show promise in reducing utilization and costs and improving patient outcomes for high-need, high-cost populations.
Enrollment in Maryland’s Behavioral Health Homes program increases outpatient care after hospitalization for Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness.
Offers a practical framework for safety-net health systems to better identify and segment patients with complex needs, and tailor care models to meet their needs.
Systematic review highlights cost savings and improvement in acute care utilization for Medicaid members and dually eligible individuals receiving home-based medical care.
Integrated health care systems can better support high-risk patients by embedding high-risk patient care within general primary care and mental health care.
Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.
A randomized clinical trial of an 18-month comprehensive intervention showed significant reductions in cardiovascular disease risk in adults with serious mental illness.
This report offers recommendations for providing medications for opioid use disorder in prisons and jails and offers correctional-based case examples from across the country.