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Sharon Katz, MSN PMH-CNS, BC
Owner and Executive Director, Collaborative Care, Inc., and Collaborative Psychiatric Associates

Tuesday, November 3 10:45-12:00 p.m.
235 - Opening the Door of the Integrated Medical Home: Keys to Collaborative Care Process Part 1 RX PI
1.25 credits - Room: Breakers ABGH
Sharon Katz, MSN PMH-CNS, BC, Owner and Executive Director, Collaborative Care, Inc., and Collaborative Psychiatric Associates

Health care reform has opened the door to integrating psychiatric mental health and behavioral interventions into medical settings. With a call for the Integrated Medical Home, prevention and patient wellness education will be rewarded as an innovation that will drive down medical costs. This opens the door for psychiatric mental health practitioners of all levels to apply the evidence based practices of the field to short term treatments in primary care settings. To capitalize on this evolution of our professions, we need to understand how to work collaboratively with medical offices, and the new NCQA standards for the patient centered medical home that focuses on early identification, patient education and modalities that can be effective in treatment of psychiatric mental health and behavioral issues in the primary care environment. By understanding the business issues involved with using commercial-based insurance, psychiatric nurses (RN,CNS, or NP), and other psychiatric mental health clinicians will have new opportunities to engage his or her full scope of practice that will directly impact patients' lives.

Participants should be able to:

  1. Identify elements of collaboration in medical setting;
  2. Understand what is needed to get credentialed and paid for collaborative services;
  3. Define the role and training needs to participate in collaborative care;
  4. Illuminate the issues involved in creating a model of collaborative care programs in your community; and
  5. Understand the steps needed in developing community outreach and collaboration tools.
Tuesday, November 3 01:00- 02:15 p.m.
253 - Opening the Door of the Integrated Medical Home: Keys to Collaborative Care Process Part 2 RX PI
1.25 credits - Room: Breakers ABGH
Sharon Katz, MSN PMH-CNS, BC, Owner and Executive Director, Collaborative Care, Inc., and Collaborative Psychiatric Associates

Walking away from the closed door of our office, into medical offices, opens the door for new applications of psychiatric mental health and behavioral interventions that will drive down medical costs. Collaborating with primary care providers directly in medical offices requires new skills built on the understanding of the office, community and patient cultures. This discussion about the integrated mental health will focus on clinical issues, skill development, complementary and alternative mental health practices and how to work with health care reform to perpetuate a new clinical environment rich in opportunities for clinical research and outcome studies. This presentation will address behavioral interventions indicated for several medical conditions (diabetes, cardiac disease, infertility, pulmonary disease, and autoimmune diseases) as well as the collaborative process. While this presentation will highlight the role of psychiatric nurse in this exciting milieu, it could enhance the knowledge base of all practitioners interested in participating in a integrated medical home.

Participants should be able to:

  1. Identify boundaries to the collaborative process and appropriate safeguards for patient information;
  2. Define the process for comprehensive assessment and wellness planning;
  3. Define the impact of mental illness on specific diseases discussed;
  4. Identify collaborative involvement, role in referral and follow up;
  5. Develop a tool specific to attendees' practices that will enhance the role, health care management, and communication between team members.

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