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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 offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room.

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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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Implementation of Combined PCBH and CCBHC Models: Key Considerations

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Use CCBHC grant resources to embed BHCs more effectively in primary care, ensuring a seamless bridge to specialty services when needed. Develop shared documentation and communication practices that support continuity of care without creating duplicative efforts. Culture, culture, culture!

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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). Study Design: Qualitative descriptive multiple case study.

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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

Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care. However, few studies assessed the organizational conditions to implement integrated care programs (ICP), in preparation for scale-up. Results: Identifying patients targeted by the ICP was challenging.

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Group summarizes new guidelines for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

Medical Xpress

The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers advice for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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How value-based care can transform health care for older adults

Permanente Medicine

In a commentary published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation, explain why value-based care provides a blueprint for ensuring our health care system can deliver high-quality care to the growing population of older adults. Ansari and Davidoff.