WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: ​December 4, 2014 Featuring: Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, Director Emeritus, MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation; Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute Robin Henderson, PsyD, Chief Behavioral Health Officer and Vice President, Strategic Integration, St. Charles Health System (Bend, Oregon) Parinda Khatri, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer, Cherokee Health Systems (Knoxville, Tennessee) Mara Laderman, MSPH, Senior Research Associate, IHI Primary care practices across the US are facing a number of important challenges right now; prominent among them is doing a much better job at recognizing and helping patients with behavioral health issues. The operative term for this is “integration” — a notion that ranges from, at minimum, co-locating behavioral health services and counselors in primary care settings; to, at best, everyone on staff having greater training and skills to detect and address the mental health and behavioral challenges that may be impacting a patient’s health. And, together as