Healthcare innovation and system enhancement for underserved communities at united services, INC. - united services, a community-based outpatient behavioral health center, seeks to implement an…

Healthcare innovation and system enhancement for underserved communities at united services, INC. - united services, a community-based outpatient behavioral health center, seeks to implement an innovative healthcare model and enhance the healthcare system in our region, especially for underserved communities and individuals with mental illness, through the delivery of integrated primary care at our facilities. The populations of focus for this program is: any individual with a mental or substance use disorder who seeks care, including those with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD) including opioid use; children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED); individuals with CO-occurring mental and substance disorders (COD); and individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. United services expects to serve 400 people with grant funding during the one year project. Project goal is to: increase the healthcare system capacity and engagement in health treatment for individuals with serious mental illness. Project objectives are: a) individuals with a primary care provider identified in the EHR will increase by at least 10% over the prior year. B) at the end of the 1 year project, at least 50% of USI clients will have had a physical within the last two years. C) 100% of primary care consumers who identify as using tobacco will be offered information on tobacco cessation.