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Integrating Mental Health in Safety-net Primary Care: A Five-year Observational Study on Visits in a County Health System.
Med Care
November 2021
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Center for Social Science and Humanities, Los Angeles, CA.
Background: Beginning in 2010, Los Angeles County Departments of Health Services and Mental Health collaborated to increase access to effective mental health care. The Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) embedded behavioral health specialists in primary care clinics to deliver brief, problem-focused treatments, and psychiatric consultation support for primary care-prescribed psychotropic medications.
Objective: The aim was to compare primary care visits associated with psychiatric diagnoses before and after MHIP implementation.