The Future Best Practice For Integration

The language of “whole person care” and “integration” remains confusing. Simply put, whole person care is the clinical approach to consumer care. “Whole person care is a patient-centered approach that uses diverse health care resources to deliver physical, behavioral, emotional, and social services to improve care coordination, well-being, and health outcomes while respecting patients’ treatment choices” (see Building A Path To Whole Person Health).

Integrated care is the delivery system model. “Integration is a coherent set of methods and models on the funding, administrative, organizational, service delivery and clinical levels designed to create connectivity, alignment, and collaboration within . . .