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Gathering Family Perspectives on Integrated Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services. Their feedback can help identify gaps, refine innovations, and ensure that enhancements truly improve patient-centered care. So, I think it’s amazing.”

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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. This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program.

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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. If your vision for health in America is about access, dignity, and truly holistic care, then integrated care should be at the heart of your Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) platform.

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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Families received help finding housing and employment, transferring social security benefits, and accessing healthcare. Our team—the Integrated Behavioral Health team at Holyoke Health Center—established a psychological first aid station at Enlace. Disasters, whether natural or human-made, often prompt us to act on our values.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake A recent systematic review provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake and indicates that multi-component interventions are more effective than single-component interventions.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Case management in primary healthcare has been documented as a promising integrated care approach to overcome fragmented care faced by adults with complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs). Research team members were involved in key steps of the analysis in an iterative process.

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Planning scale-up of integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a multiple case study [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Adults with complex needs require health and social services from a variety of providers, which can lead to frequent use of services. Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care.