Many health centers provide behavioral health services; others work closely with community partners who provide behavioral health services to their patients. One of the biggest challenges for health centers is determining how to integrate data between the two services. The HITEQ Center recently published the resource Utilizing and Integrating Behavioral Health Data into a Health Center’s Primary Care Services. This webinar introduced the Center for Integrated Health Solutions' Standard Framework for Levels of Integrated Healthcare and provided some guidance of how to integrate care regardless of which model of care is being provided. Dr. Rina Ramirez, Chief Medical Officer of Zufall Health, shared her experiences of integrating behavioral health data. Zufall Health which has a traditional Behavioral Health Department, recently started an Integrated Behavioral Health program within primary care, and partners with an external behavioral health organization who focuses on people with Serious Mental Illness.

HRSA’s Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center offered a webinar featuring experts that have developed telehealth-enabled school health centers in rural communities. These health centers provide telehealth services for rural children that focus on asthma, obesity reduction and prevention, behavioral health, diabetes, and oral health. Hear about the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from their HRSA-supported telehealth network grant project.

Thursday, June 21
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
 

This webinar was part of HRSA’s Telehealth Learning Webinar Series. The series’ goal is to highlight successful projects/best practices as well as resources to promote and further the use of telehealth technologies for health care delivery, education, and health information services. For more information, contact Carlos Mena.

The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) hosted this webinar featuring subject matter experts in using EHR systems for substance use assessment and treatment from the Oregon Community Health Information Network (OCHIN) and Family Health Services Health Center. This webinar covered a variety of related topics, including developing and implementing workflows, strategies to align technological workflows, and key privacy and confidentiality-related compliance considerations for 42 CFR Part 2.

Wednesday, June 20
3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
 

The Road to Sustainability for SDOH Interventions

Presented by: National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, Corporation for Supportive Housing, Health Outreach Partners and National Association for Community Health Centers

Health Centers are developing a variety of innovative ways to address SDOH. Commonly the greatest challenge to this work is having a sustainable funding stream to take and keep the work at scale. This webinar highlighted funding models and funding mechanisms that could assist in SDOH activities, as well as the partnerships and activities that can assist your health center in sustaining these important activities. The presenters described funding models that support SDOH work and examples of health centers activities that had led to sustainable funding for SDOH activities.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the principles of funding models such as Value Based Payments, Alternative Payment models and other examples of funding models that support SDOH activities.
• Explain how integrated care teams can be developed to prepare for Value Based Payment models.
• Learn examples of data collection variables and methods that can incorporated in to your health center’s workflow to collect the information your health center needs to engage funders and payment systems.
• Learn examples of tools and resources that can help your health center build the case for SDOH activities.