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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

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. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit.

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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

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program.

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Pain, Stress & Anxiety During IVF Improve With WS-TCM Treatment

Physician's Weekly

“Our work represents some of the first efforts to assess the immediate impact of such therapies upon patient-reported psychosocial symptomatology, in a population for whom improved mental health may ultimately impact IVF outcomes,” wrote corresponding author Rebecca Lu, MD , of The University of Chicago, and study coauthors.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. I would like them to get married and unite, and have this real integrated care model. I think- Eric: I was going to say that. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right. Katie: Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. We have 350,000 grandparents taking care of grandkids.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

FAAFP, wrote in MedPage Today that Congress must pass legislation to require Medicare Part B coverage of all recommended vaccines , allowing patients to access vaccines more readily from their usual source of care and improving our nation’s uptake of one of the most cost-effective public health measures.