Primary Care Medical Practices Create Open Access Scheduling For Behavioral Health Services

All four Franklin Health primary care medical practices—Pediatrics, Internal Medicine Farmington Family Practice, and Livermore Falls Family Practice—now have open access to schedule patients to be seen at Franklin Health Behavioral Services. This means that staff in the primary care setting can directly schedule appointments for their patients needing mental health and behavioral services. This change enables patients to be seen sooner when it is clinically necessary, or when the primary care provider feels that the patient needs high quality psychiatric expertise. The staff includes one psychiatrist and two psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners. The clinicians at Behavioral . . .