The encounters between healthcare providers and patients are critically important in shaping health behaviors. Screening, education, and planning between healthcare staff and their patients can effectively prevent mental health and substance use problems. The ODMHSAS will support statewide efforts to disseminate best practices in primary care, specialty care, and emergency department settings. Key partnerships with providers, practices, associations/boards, and payors will help embed these approaches in Oklahoman’s routine experience at their doctors’ offices.
Collaborative Care (CoCM) is a specific type of integrated care developed at the University of Washington to treat common mental health conditions in medical settings, like primary care. Behavioral health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, alcohol, or substance use disorders are among the most common and disabling health conditions worldwide. Based on principles of effective chronic illness care, CoCM focuses on defined patient populations who are tracked in a registry to monitor treatment progression. The treatment plan focuses on measurement-based treatment to target, to ensure the patient’s goals and clinical outcomes are met.
For more information about Collaborative Care
View the Collaborative Care Training page
Benefits of Collaborative Care include:
- Improved access to mental health care through primary care settings
- Better coordination between providers and more integrated treatment
- Faster symptom improvement for conditions like Depression and Anxiety Disorder
- Regular monitoring and treatment adjustments based on patient progress
- More convenient, patient-centered care with easier communication
- Reduced stigma by receiving behavioral health support in familiar settings
- Better management of both mental and physical health conditions
- Potential reductions in emergency visits, hospitalizations, and overall healthcare costs
Zero Suicide is a quality improvement model that transforms system-wide suicide prevention and care to save lives. The primary goals of Zero Suicide are to promote suicide prevention as a core component of healthcare services and to promote and implement effective clinical and professional practices for assessing and treating those identified as being at risk for suicidal behaviors.
For more information, contact the ODMHSAS Healthcare-Based Prevention Services Team.
For more information about Zero Suicide in healthcare settings
Daisha Dillard
Prevention Program Manager
405-255-3858
