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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. Ensure that the reorganized SAMHSA is closely aligned with the medical side of HHS programs including the Bureau of Primary Health Care, so that mental health priorities support physical health priorities and visa versa.

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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system.

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How your mental health can affect your physical health

Vida Family Medicine

Most patients who go to see a primary care doctor are concerned about improving their physical health. They want to live a long life free of chronic health problems that may cause pain, limit their activities, or cause complications that could land them in the hospital. Mental health and physical health are completely intertwined.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. The Warner Bros.

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Functional Culture Creation and Trauma-informed Care: A Conceptual Model of Change for Labor and Delivery [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Labor and delivery units in hospitals, participating in a statewide quality improvement initiative, with a reduction in low-risk primary cesarean rate that was sustained for at least 1 year and/or a reduction or elimination of racial inequity in cesarean births were selected.

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Study reveals somatic mutation profile of colorectal tumor with simultaneous APC and MLH1 germline mutations

Medical Xpress

Recently, a research group from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University dissected, for the first time, the somatic mutation profile of familial colorectal cancer with the coinheritance of mutations in both APC and MLH1 genes.