Getting Around The Obstacles

A new recent report, Adoption Of Integrated Care for People With Co-Occurring Mental Health And Substance Use Disorders, confirmed what most executives in the health and human service field know—there has been limited progress on integrated care for consumers with the most severe behavioral health disorders. In a survey of outpatient behavioral health provider organizations in 2020, 54% of outpatient mental health organizations and 53% of organizations for outpatient addiction treatment had some program to provide integrated care for people with co-occurring mental health and addictive disorders. This represented no change from 2014 to 2020 for mental . . .