Enhanced primary care for adults with serious mental illness led to increases in primary care visits and health screenings as well as decreases in inpatient utilization.
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment combined with recovery management checkups can connect primary care patients to substance use disorder treatment.
This study identifies facilitators and barriers of hospital- and community-based harm reduction collaboration efforts and highlights hospital-based opportunities to better serve people who use drugs.
A home-based collaborative care model using community health workers shows reductions in depression and increased connection to services for older adults.
A health-plan-administered telehealth care coaching intervention led to long-term cost savings as well as increased behavioral health service use for adults with behavioral health needs and a history of high utilization.
A health plan-led telepsychiatry program for older adults can address the shortage of psychiatrists to improve outcomes related to depression and access to mental health care.
A patient intervention that supported outpatient addiction treatment with destigmatized conversations about substance use between patients and primary care providers showed long-term benefits.
Describes how community-based participatory action research, especially in peer-based mental health settings, can advance community empowerment and health equity.
Individuals with behavioral health diagnoses who are released from jails are less likely to return to jail if they receive behavioral health services after release.