Montrose Counseling Center

Legacy Community Health Services

Background/Partnership HistoryBackground/Partnership History• MCC was founded in 1978 out of a town hall

meeting in the GLBT community• Legacy was founded in 1981 as an STD

clinic for the gay community and is now an FQHC serving the entire community

• There has been a long history of collaboration on projects for HIV prevention, breast cancer outreach and screening, senior services

About Our ProgramAbout Our Program

• Integration model – MCC and LCHS are providing integration at both sites. MCC providing substance abuse and case management at LCHS, LCHS providing screening, wellness and nutrition at MCC.

• Strategies used to incorporate primary care - health screenings, wellness classes and events, nutritional counseling

• Enrollment target – 60/year

About Our ProgramAbout Our Program

• Special populations served – LGBT and HIV

• Urban setting

• Wellness services offered – yoga, fitness room, peer resiliency series, tobacco cessation, healthy eating series, and psychoeducation of SMIs

• Use of peers – resiliency series and consumer advisory panel

• EHR vendor – MCC: “home grown”, LCHS: Centricity

Who We AreWho We Are

MCC•Andrea Washington, LCSW, Project Coordinator•Ann J. Robison, PhD, Executive Director•Nadpon Petnoy, Programmer (Contractor)

LCHSTina Megdal, MEd

Successful StrategiesSuccessful Strategies• Designing a customized, home grown electronic health

record• Step by step involvement of clinical staff to design a product customized

to our needs

• Results – making the system relevant to the clinical staff, capturing the data that can help our clients

• Enrollment/Reassessment• Understanding each system and how they can work together

• Developing communication tools

• Sustainability• Understanding each others billing and financing structures

• Planning for 2014

Plans for the FuturePlans for the Future

• Sustainabilityo Clinical – working our incorporating the health assessment

into MCC behavioral health assessment and electronic records, testing record exchanges

o Financial – credentialing the substance abuse treatment program under FQHC

• Accountable Care Organization activityo Exchanging records through the Health Information

Exchangeo Transmitting public health surveillance data and lab orders

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