So we pause now to spotlight a significant, and often unsung, element of health care: the Community Health Worker.Ĭommunity Health Worker Breanna Burke works as a CHW at Healing Hands Health Center in Bristol, Tennessee. From PCPs to specialists, from nursing staff doing triage to front desk staff trying to keep the engines running, there’s no lack of work to be done. He’s also Assistant Professor for Pediatrics and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.Ĭoordinated Health Care has so many pieces to it. Jason Herrick, director of the Adult Behavioral Health Integration Program at Montefiore Medical Group, part of the Montefiore Health System. To talk about NCQA’s Behavioral Health Distinction, we welcome Dr. Over time, they realized how inseparable behavioral health care is from physical health care. With their headquarters in the Bronx, Montefiore Health System includes more than 20 primary care locations in the Bronx and Westchester County. One of the first health systems to qualify for our Behavioral Health distinction was New York-based Montefiore Medical Group. The NCQA Distinction in Behavioral Health Integration program works with NCQA PCMHs to perform gap analyses and figure out how to bring better care to mental health and substance abuse patients.
In talking about behavioral health, NCQA again is at the forefront of health measurement.
