Hershey Medical Center Business Plan

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Development of Integrated Mental Health Services within the primary clinics at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Objectives:


In the United States, the need for pediatric psychiatric care exceeds the availability, leading to long waitlists for appointments With the national shift towards population medicine, it will be even more imperative to develop efficient models of care that emphasize early detection and intervention in primary care settings.
In this changing healthcare environment, pediatricians will be expected more frequently to treat mental health disorders and to start psychiatric medications. Approximately half of the pediatric office visits in a primary setting involve emotional, behavioral, developmental, psychosocial, …show more content…

Outpatient pediatric clinics and outpatient child psychiatric clinics are often housed in separate buildings, so pediatricians and child psychiatrists rarely meet in the outpatient setting.

Method
The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The Penn State Hershey in collaboration with the Department of Pediatrics developed a Collaborative Model for provision of pediatric behavioral health services at the Hershey Medical Center. The goal was to improve access to behavioral health services and to provide increase support to pediatric medical providers across the HMC campus. Additional goals are to speed the effectiveness of behavioral health treatments offered in pediatric medical settings.
Clinic embedded within the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics’ efforts to establish a collaborative care model for child mental health issues across Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Outcome measures will include satisfaction ratings from referring pediatric staff and participating families, wait times for receipt of behavioral health services and the total number of behavioral health visits in medical

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