A Non-Traditional Collaboration Of Two Provider Organizations To Improve Continuity Of Behavioral Health Care: Harbor & Mercy Health Case Study

Over the past five years, Harbor — a community mental health center — has implemented three new initiatives, each with the mission to improve comprehensive care for individuals who have a mental illness. Two initiatives were in partnership with the state of Ohio and the third was in response to an RFP issued by Mercy Health seeking assistance to develop psychiatric services to improve access to care, timeliness of care, and quality of care outcomes. Harbor successfully won the RFP with its cost effective, solution focused response . . .