Health & Medicine Policy Research Group launched its Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Learning Collaborative in 2015. The Learning Collaborative set up a Hospital Transitional Care Workgroup to focus on the potential to improve outcomes for individuals...

In the Fall of 2015 Health & Medicine distributed a survey to gather input from a broader constituency, beyond the membership of the Learning Collaborative, in order to understand the diverse perspectives on integrated behavioral-primary health care across the...

For people with mental health and/or substance use disorders, behavioral health equity enables recovery. This brief presents an approach for individuals and institutions working in healthcare and public health to engage people with behavioral health conditions around...

Health & Medicine Policy Research Group’s Center for Long-Term Care Reform started the Behavioral Health-Primary Care Integration Learning Collaborative in 2015 to guide local advocacy and facilitate practice-level change to improve the lives of people with mental...

Distilling feedback and insight from Learning Collaborative members, this paper offer our broad perspective on the policy needs for integration, focusing on three key areas related to integrated primary care and behavioral health in Illinois: 1)Building capacity by...

From early planning conversations that set the stage for the Learning Collaborative to recent planning to test new methods for hospital transitional care, data exchange has consistently emerged as a major challenge to implementing integrated models and improving...

This paper defines the six criteria and also identifies practices that Learning Collaborative members are implementing that partly or entirely fulfilled each criterion. Rather than defining a strict set of practices that may only work in specific conditions, we focus...

This working paper offers a brief history of Medicaid funding for behavioral health, describes home- and community-based services waivers, the Medicaid Rehabilitation Option and its implementation in Illinois, and capitated managed care, all with an eye toward...

This working paper reflects our initial investigation of the current state of best practice in physical and behavioral health integration. The purpose of the paper is to solicit responses from experts and advocates with experience in this field who can advance our...