Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) within primary care can help patients receive quality whole person care, however little is documented about the distribution and nature of time spent in key activities by integrated psychologists (i.e., Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs). Intervention: NA.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Up to 30% of patients seen in primary care have a co-occurring mental health or substance use issue. Integrating mental and behavioral health with primary care may increase access, improve outcomes, and decrease overall health care costs. Iterative constant comparative analysis of interview data.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency. As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Nguyen, who is a UTMB postdoctoral fellow in public health and infectious disease, said he asked clinic staff whether his family’s insurance would cover the checkups and immunizations.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. It’s underappreciated, I think, by providers and by patients. Welcome, Ariel.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. There are clinics.

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