Collaborative Care Through Health Homes: Applying The Chronic Care Model To Behavioral Health

Collaborative Care Through Health Homes: Applying The Chronic Care Model To Behavioral Health
To function as a behavioral health home requires a major shift in the roles, processes, and care provided in behavioral health settings. To achieve this shift, the behavioral health home must reorganize care delivery in several key areas: self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, clinical information systems, and community linkages. These are the core elements of the chronic care model, which serves as an overarching framework for the behavioral health home. This section provides an overview of the chronic care model and then examines each . . .