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Cara Nikolajski1, Kelly Williams2, Patricia Schake3
1UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care, UPMC Insurance Services Division, 600 Grant Street, 40thFloor, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, USA. nikolajskice@upmc.edu.
Abstract:
Individuals living with a serious mental illness are disproportionately affected by preventable and/or manageable chronic conditions. Integrated care and support for behavioral and physical health within community mental health provider (CMHP) settings, also known as behavioral health homes (BHH), can lead to improvements in care and cost outcomes. This study explored staff perceptions of barriers and facilitators to BHH implementation. We conducted semi-structured interviews with CMHP staff at baseline, 1, and 2 years after the start of implementation. We analyzed interviews to identify major themes. We conducted 65 total interviews with 30 unique staff members. Common barriers included staff turnover, hesitation to change care processes, and acute service user needs. Facilitators included agency-wide culture change, intervention champions, and integration of intervention processes into daily workflows. Despite common barriers, CMHP staff identified several elements related to successful BHH implementation, including the CMHP-wide cultural shift to comprehensively address health/wellness that benefitted service users and staff alike.
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