The psychiatric collaborative care model (CoCM), better known as "collaborative care," is much more than just a synonym for well-rounded care or holistic treatment. Simply co-locating a licensed ...

Nearly half of Americans live in an area without adequate mental health services. More than 85% of these so-called Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas are located in rural communities. This ...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues have been on the rise across the nation, but many struggle to access the care they need. Collaborative care -- an approach sown to improve ...

For years, mental healthcare and primary care were independent of each other. If you visited a primary healthcare provider with mental illness symptoms, they'd refer you to a mental healthcare ...

Modest spending on integrated mental health services in primary care, facilitated by use of new collaborative care billing codes, did not increase overall health care costs. Objectives: The ...

ThedaCare, a four hospital community health system based in Appleton, Wisc., is a leading healthcare delivery system and is nationally recognized for its continual process improvement efforts. The ...

—Usual care, colocation, or collaborative care? That was the question raised by a team of New York-based experts, who tracked healthcare resource utilization patterns as well as cost estimates for ...

Existing conventional treatments and the current model of care do not adequately address the complex challenges of mental illness Available conventional treatments and the dominant model of mental ...

PHILADELPHIA--Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues have been on the rise across the nation, but many struggle to access the care they need. Collaborative care--a proven approach for ...