Resource Brief: Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care
As health care reform proceeds and primary care is transformed, many practices are considering integration of behavioral health services to improve access and quality. In order to work effectively in primary care settings, behavioral health providers must adopt practice patterns and skill sets different from those used in traditional specialty mental health settings. Beyond the challenge of helping providers adapt their skill sets, practices must also address obstacles to reimbursement.
Resource Brief: The Triple C: Compassionate, Collaborative Care
In fall 2014, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, in collaboration with the Josiah Macy Jr.
Meet Community Moderator Elyse Perweiler
In January, the National Center launched the “community moderator” program, an initiative that gives users of the Resource Exchange and Online Community more opportunities to interact with each other – and recognized leaders in interprofessional practice education (IPE). Each month we’ll feature a different community moderator to help users determine the best contact for specific questions and topics.
True Grit: Promoting Student Resiliency Through Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Health professional students must learn how to be resilient. Today’s global society is increasingly diverse and complex requiring resiliency to successfully navigate challenges in the workplace. Healthcare students learn core knowledge, skills, attitudes and values and are asked to quickly apply learning to a clinical or functional setting. Their ability to move from receiving direct instruction to clinical practice is facilitated through supervised interprofessional training in simulation, experiential opportunities, and co-curricular settings that develop practitioner re
Oral Health for Older Adults in Palliative Care and Long-Term Settings
Elders residing in institutional settings have unique oral care needs. Often facing multiple chronic conditions, limited access to dental care, and self-care deficits, these seniors are especially vulnerable to suboptimal oral hygiene and oral/dental complications. This webinar will focus on the role of nursing and the interprofessional team in the oral care of elders in long term care settings. Emphasis will be placed on the palliative oral care issues of those with multiple medical co-morbidities or serious advanced illness.
The 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care
Our experiences studying exemplar primary care practices, and our work assisting other practices to become more patient centered, led to a formulation of the essential elements of primary care, which we call the 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care.
Team structure and culture are associated with lower burnout in primary care.
PURPOSE:
Burnout is a threat to the primary care workforce. We investigated the relationship between team structure, team culture, and emotional exhaustion of clinicians and staff in primary care practices.
METHODS:
Overcoming challenges to teamwork in patient-centered medical homes: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND:
There is emerging consensus that enhanced inter-professional teamwork is necessary for the effective and efficient delivery of primary care, but there is less practical information specific to primary care available to guide practices on how to better work as teams.
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this study was to describe how primary care practices have overcome challenges to providing team-based primary care and the implications for care delivery and policy.
APPROACH:
In search of joy in practice: a report of 23 high-functioning primary care practices.
We highlight primary care innovations gathered from high-functioning primary care practices, innovations we believe can facilitate joy in practice and mitigate physician burnout. To do so, we made site visits to 23 high-performing primary care practices and focused on how these practices distribute functions among the team, use technology to their advantage, improve outcomes with data, and make the job of primary care feasible and enjoyable as a life's vocation.
From triple to quadruple aim: care of the patient requires care of the provider.
The Triple Aim-enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and reducing costs-is widely accepted as a compass to optimize health system performance. Yet physicians and other members of the health care workforce report widespread burnout and dissatisfaction. Burnout is associated with lower patient satisfaction, reduced health outcomes, and it may increase costs. Burnout thus imperils the Triple Aim.