TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Community Mental Health Services/economics/organization & administration/statistics & numerical data
KW - Eligibility Determination
KW - Ethnic Groups/statistics & numerical data
KW - Female
KW - Health Care Costs
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Medically Uninsured
KW - Mental Disorders/economics/therapy
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Primary Health Care/economics/organization & administration/statistics & numerical data
KW - Program Development
KW - Questionnaires
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
KW - Texas
AU - C. E. Begley
AU - J. S. Hickey
AU - B. Ostermeyer
AU - L. A. Teske
AU - T. Vu
AU - J. Wolf
AU - M. E. Kunik
AU - P. J. Rowan
A1 - 
AB - This column describes and evaluates the Harris County Community Behavioral Health Program, a new integrated care program operating in community health centers serving low-income uninsured residents in Houston, Texas. Patient service data, provider satisfaction, patient outcome data, and appointment waiting periods were obtained to evaluate the initial operation of the program. The integrated care program has been successfully implemented on a large scale at an annual cost of about dollars 800,000, or dollars 268 per patient served. About 3,000 patients were treated for behavioral problems by behavioral health staff during the first 11 months of the program. In addition, efforts were made to expand the scope of behavioral health interventions provided by primary care physicians. Providers were satisfied with the program, improvement was detected among patients treated, and there was an increase in the average number of community-based behavioral health services received per patient since the program was implemented.
BT - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
C5 - Education & Workforce; Financing & Sustainability; Healthcare Disparities
CP - 4
CY - United States
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.59.4.356
IS - 4
JF - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
N2 - This column describes and evaluates the Harris County Community Behavioral Health Program, a new integrated care program operating in community health centers serving low-income uninsured residents in Houston, Texas. Patient service data, provider satisfaction, patient outcome data, and appointment waiting periods were obtained to evaluate the initial operation of the program. The integrated care program has been successfully implemented on a large scale at an annual cost of about dollars 800,000, or dollars 268 per patient served. About 3,000 patients were treated for behavioral problems by behavioral health staff during the first 11 months of the program. In addition, efforts were made to expand the scope of behavioral health interventions provided by primary care physicians. Providers were satisfied with the program, improvement was detected among patients treated, and there was an increase in the average number of community-based behavioral health services received per patient since the program was implemented.
PP - United States
PY - 2008
SN - 1075-2730; 1075-2730
SP - 356
EP - 358
EP - 
T1 - Integrating behavioral health and primary care: The Harris County Community Behavioral Health Program
T2 - Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
TI - Integrating behavioral health and primary care: The Harris County Community Behavioral Health Program
U1 - Education & Workforce; Financing & Sustainability; Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 18378830
U3 - 10.1176/appi.ps.59.4.356
VL - 59
VO - 1075-2730; 1075-2730
Y1 - 2008
ER -