State Innovation Model Updates

January 19, 2017

Attention Primary Care 

SIM office to release cohort 2 RFA
 

The SIM team will release a request for applications (RFA) next month for primary care practices to participate in the second cohort of SIM. Click here for more information on the cohort 2 RFA, and to sign up for updates.

SIM helps redefine behavioral health in primary care settings
 
Whole-person health has become a tagline for healthcare providers who integrate behavioral health and primary care. One SIM practice shares examples of how integrated care has improved patient outcomes. 
Telemedicine: SIM lays groundwork for future success
 
The SIM team is pleased to report ongoing progress in the commitment to expand broadband access to practices across the state to enhance data reporting capacity and lay the groundwork for telemedicine. We believe this is a lynchpin to improving access to integrated care. We will have additional information about a new telemedicine research report, which we plan to publish in the coming months and more details about this piece of the SIM initiative in future issues of the newsletter. Stay tuned! 
 
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The historic, cultural separation of primary care and behavioral health has caused the spread of integrated care to lag behind other practice transformation efforts. The Advancing Care Together study was a 3-year evaluation of how practices implemented integrated care in their local contexts; at its culmination, practice leaders ("innovators") identified lessons learned to pass on to others.

The Arvada Police Department is teaming up with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health, and have added two mental health experts to the police force.
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