Manatt Health July 8, 2024
This newsletter has been adapted from findings from a December 2023 report, The Collaborative Care Model in North Carolina: A Roadmap for Statewide Capacity Building to Integrate Physical and Behavioral Health Care.
Context and Introduction
As the national crisis in behavioral and mental health care continues to worsen, providers have tested innovative ways to bring services to children and adults in need. One approach to enhance service delivery is the integration of behavioral and mental health services into the primary care setting. Collaboration between primary care providers and specialized mental health care providers allows services that were historically delivered separately to be delivered in the same setting and ensures a patient’s “whole-person” health needs are met during care delivery.1,2
The...