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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A wide range of experts and innovators from throughout the state came together to help craft the State Health Care Innovation Plan. The overarching goal was to take advantage of Colorado's best thinking while building the widespread support necessary to achieve transformation of the health care system. The integration of primary care and behavioral health is the cornerstone of our vision. We strongly believe that coordinated, accountable systems of...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Access and availability to behavioral health crisis services continues to be a gap in Colorado's behavioral health system. The goals of crisis services are to improve access to the most appropriate treatment resources and to decrease the utilization of hospital emergency departments, jails, prisons, and homeless programs for behavioral health emergencies.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Comprehensive crisis response and stabilization services have long been considered a crucial element of public behavioral health systems. There is a considerable body of evidence suggesting that comprehensive crisis services can improve outcomes for consumers, reduce inpatient hospital stays and costs, and facilitate access to other necessary behavioral health services and supports. In many communities, crisis response services also perform important...
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2012.
Description
In 2011 Colorado received a one-year system of care expansion planning grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a blueprint for expanding the approach statewide. The system of care model is a noncategorical approach to improving and integrating services and supports for children and youth with serious behavioral health challenges and their families. Colorado will focus on children with serious behavioral...
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The Colorado SIM Operational Plan charts a path to achieving Colorado SIM's overarching goal: to improve the health of Coloradans by providing access to integrated physical and behavioral health care services in coordinated community systems, with value-based payment structures, for 80 percent of Colorado residents by 2019. The SIM Operational Plan outlines Colorado's four-pillar approach to innovation: 1) providing access to integrated primary care...
