Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation reflects more than a decade of effective, outcome-based clinical leadership focused on integrating behavioral health and primary care. A helpful volume on its own, this follow-up to the principal author's book, Integrated Care: Working at the Interface of Primary Care and Behavioral Health, teaches readers how to anticipate and navigate the barriers to implementation on the way to building effective, collaborative, interdisciplinary care teams in today's challenging health care environment. The text covers the full range of factors that must be considered when implementing an integrated care program. The authors distill the key traits needed in behavioral health, psychiatric, and primary care providers on the team, as well as provide forthright guidance on team development, essential tasks, leadership contributions, and financial and policy implications. Real-life examples provided by clinical staff who made the transition to collaborative care are woven into the text, providing insight into the goals of improving outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost containment.
Health care leaders and primary care providers will find the book's guidance to be practical, relevant, and thorough. Indeed, the insights and strategies presented in Integrated Care: A Guide for Effective Implementation have the potential to change the way clinicians practice and to significantly improve care for the patients they serve.
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