How Can Primary Care Teams Meet Patients' Medical and Behavioral Health Needs?

Early Results from a 12-Month Quality Improvement Collaborative

Collaborative Family Healthcare Association 17th Annual ConferenceOctober 15-17, 2015 Portland, Oregon U.S.A.

Session #F4aOctober 17, 2015

Mara Laderman, MSPHSenior Research Associate, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Wendy Bradley, LPC, CAADCBehavioral Health Integration and Community Engagement Team Lead,

Ampersand Health

Faculty Disclosure

The presenters of this session• have NOT had any relevant financial

relationships during the past 12 months.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, the participant will be able to:

• Learn about the methodology behind quality improvement collaboratives and how they can bring about results in process and outcome measures related to integrated care.

• Discuss how several diverse primary care practices have implemented key changes relative to team-based, integrated care.

• Describe early results from a 12-month quality improvement collaborative designed to create high performing primary care teams to address patients' medical and behavioral needs.

Bibliography / Reference

1. The Breakthrough Series: IHI’s Collaborative Model for Achieving Breakthrough Improvement. IHI Innovation Series white paper. Boston: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2003. Available on www.IHI.org

2. MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation. Primary Care Team Guide. 2015. Available from: http://improvingprimarycare.org/

3. Laderman M. Behavioral Health Integration: A Key Component of the Triple Aim. Population Health Management. 2015;18(5):320-322.

4. Laderman M & Mate K. Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Challenging but Necessary Step. Healthcare Executive, Mar/April 2014, 74-77.

5. Laderman, M. & Mate, K. Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care. IHI Innovation Report. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2014.

Learning Assessment

• A learning assessment is required for CE credit.

• A question and answer period will be conducted at the end of this presentation.

Today’s Agenda

Collaborative structure, background, and aims

Measurement and evaluation

Content framework

Results to date

Challenges and next steps

Have you participated in a collaborative?

What was your experience?

P7

Collaborative Structure, Background, and Aims

Select Topic

(Develop Mission)

Planning Group

Develop Framework & Changes

Participants (10-100 Teams)

Prework

LS 1

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A D

P

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A D

LS 3LS 2

Supports Email Phone Conferences

Extranet Visits Assessments

Sponsors Monthly Team Reports

DisseminationPublications,

Congress, etc.A D

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SExpert

Meeting

AP1 AP2 AP3*

LS – Learning Session

AP – Action Period

*AP3 –continue reporting data as needed to document success

Holding the Gains

IHI Breakthrough Series(6 to 18 Months Time Frame)

The content and approach of this Collaborative is based on: 1) IHI’s system-level approach to integrating behavioral health and primary care

2) The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation’s work on Primary Care Teams: Learning from Effective Ambulatory Practices (PCT-LEAP), funded by RWJF. PCT-LEAP involved careful study of exemplary primary care practices across the US.

Collaborative Participants

32 participating organizations:19 FQHCs, including 7 Indian Health Service sites

10 health systems

1 ACO

1 VA system site

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Methodology: Science of Improvement

W. Edwards Deming1900-1993

API’s Model for Improvement

Collaborative Aim

Participating organizations will redefine the composition

and roles of primary care, building highly functional,

multidisciplinary teams that are fully equipped to address the physical and behavioral

care needs of their population.

P13

Collaborative Objectives: within 12 months…

Assess and segment the population served to understand medical and behavioral needs, identify barriers to better health, and target interventions to be tested.

Optimize primary care team composition, roles, and activities to support integrated medical and behavioral health care (inclusive of mental health, substance abuse conditions, and healthy behaviors).

Identify and implement an approach to integration that best meets the needs of the patient populations served, the primary care team, and the organization.

Improve medical and behavioral health integration and care experience.

Identify appropriate financial models, including quality contracts, global payment models, and grants to fund this transition.

Develop plan to scale up & sustain the model that’s been developed and tested.

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Measurement and EvaluationP15

Participants will collect, report, and share qualitative and quantitative data monthly to analyze and identify opportunities for improvement on measures relating to:

• Patient Experience• Screening and Follow-up• Health• Team functionality• Health care costs

P16

Content: Change Package17

Pre-work/Onboarding

Modified version of PCMH-A (Empanelment, Leadership, and QI Capacity) with resources and asynchronous learning opportunities available to those needing any remediation or a refresher.

Baseline data collection on processes, population served, and people on the workforce.

Assessment of current status and readiness for integration

Assessments of team functionality and satisfaction

Recommended readings

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Content Framework Components

Focus of collaborative work:

Team-Based Relationships

Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care

Person and Family Centered Care

Care Coordination

Sustainable Business Model

Should have in place at the outset:

Committed and Engaged Leadership

Quality Improvement Capacity

Empanelment

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Adapted from the Safety Net Medical Home: Wagner EH et al. The changes involved in patient-centered medical home transformation. Prim Care. Jun 2012;39(2):241-259.

Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care

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Develop reliable operations and processes to support integrated care.

Redesign care delivery using the core principles of integrated care.

BHI core components

1. Define the behavioral health needs you need and want to address.

2. Choose a behavioral health integration approach.

3. Identify how to make the business case for integration.

4. Select the behavioral health providers and organizations with whom to collaborate.

5. Develop and train the workforce.

6. Develop a process for how patients will access behavioral health care.

7. Redesign clinical and operational workflows.

8. Track patient and integration program outcomes.

9. Enhance the capacity to provide evidence-based care.

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P22

Topics covered – BHI onlyClinical• Depression screening and follow up• Brief interventions• Clinical pathways – vertical and horizontal integration• Case examples

Operational• Different approaches to integration• Roles, competencies, and training needs of a behavioral health

specialist• Hiring and onboarding BHCs• Redesigning clinical and operational workflows• Confidentiality, health information technology, and documentation

Financial• Making the business case for integrated care• More details on financing and payment

Sample Results to Date

Results to dateP24

Results to dateP25

What has gone well?100% of teams have completed pre-work assessments.

High team engagement on calls and in completing assignments.

High leadership engagement.

Strong understanding of integration.

Participants have been very generous in sharing with other teams.

A majority are on the right track and are setting themselves up for success.

Participants have worked through many of the issues around confidentiality, EHRs, and resistance to brief interventions

P26

ChallengesCurriculum planning for a year of very complex work.

Pre-work, aim setting, and population selection took longer than expected.

Needed to spend more time on foundation building – team creation, culture change

Inconsistent data reporting from many teams.

Teams at varying levels of readiness and experience with content and quality improvement methods.

Buy-in to collaborative learning approach.

Continuing perception that integration is a side project.

We have had to adjust our expectations for the pace of change.

P27

Lessons for setting up collaboratives

Topic scoping – complexity and specificity.

Teams should be at similar levels of readiness with leadership, culture change, and quality improvement capability.

Set clear expectations for participation and data reporting.

Explicit structure and sequencing of content.

In-person vs. virtual learning.

Participants need to be able to contact each other (listserv).

P28

Conclusions

Quality improvement collaboratives can effectively bring disparate organizations with shared goals together to learn from expert faculty and from each other.

Pros and cons of narrowing topic for a collaborative (BHI vs. team-based primary care).

Challenging to find a balance between direction and flexibility when teaching how to implement integration for different types of organizations.

Expecting changes in health status within 12 months is likely unrealistic for most organizations who are just starting out.

P29

Questions?P30

Session Evaluation

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