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ForwardPCMH Lehigh Capital PA Learning Session 8.5.21
The PCMHs are utilizing some of the techniques and approaches to connecting their patients to Behavioral Health but especially with an increased number of people reporting Behavioral health issues, during COVID, the complete understanding of what is available and the workflows of how to use those resources is something they are not fully informed about. The PCMH participants may not be aware of all of the approaches available to them and also how integrating behavioral health with physical health can improve patient compliance with preventive care and with chronic disease treatment.
These sessions will focus on the continuum of mental health and substance misuse services and the roles of and best practices for PCMHs across this continuum.
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. – Welcome and Overview of Agenda
8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. – Report Outs by PCMH Practices – Facilitator: Laura Line, Health Federation.
Each PCMH responds to the following questions:
What are the primary external resources that you use to support your patients with mental health and substance misuse needs?
What have been the wins and challenges in connecting patients with these resources?
9:30 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. – Break
9:35 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. – The Continuum of Behavioral Health and Services – James Myers, LSW, Community Care and Magellan
10:10am to 10:35am – Resources for Practices Serving Children: Telephonic Psychiatric Services (TiPs)
Presenter: James Waxmonsky, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, University Chair in Child Psychiatry, Penn State University, Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Penn State Health
10:35 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. – The Role of Primary Care: Approaches for Addressing Mental Health and Substance Misuse Across the Continuum – Facilitator: Suzanne Cohen, Health Federation
Ketra Forry, MA, LPC, CAADC, MTTS, Manager Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Services, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Perla Plasencia, LCSW, Behavioral Health Consultant, Berks Community Health Center
11:25 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Wrap-Up
Target Audience
Nurse
Physician
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
1. Identify effective approaches for enhancing coordination of physical and behavioral health care through collaborations.
2. Describe effective ways to provide the behavioral health resources patients need through offering practice-based and referred services.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Audience Disclosure slides (003).pptx | 459.3 KB |
 BH-MCO overview August 2021.pdf | 1.28 MB |
| JWaxmonsky pcmh lc summer 2021.pdf | 1.47 MB |
| PPlasencia slides for summer 2021 BH presentations(1) (1).pdf | 110.21 KB |
The PCMHs are utilizing some of the techniques and approaches to connecting their patients to Behavioral Health but especially with an increased number of people reporting Behavioral health issues, during COVID, the complete understanding of what is available and the workflows of how to use those resources is something they are not fully informed about. The PCMH participants may not be aware of all of the approaches available to them and also how integrating behavioral health with physical health can improve patient compliance with preventive care and with chronic disease treatment.
These sessions will focus on the continuum of mental health and substance misuse services and the roles of and best practices for PCMHs across this continuum.
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. – Welcome and Overview of Agenda
8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. – Report Outs by PCMH Practices – Facilitator: Laura Line, Health Federation.
Each PCMH responds to the following questions:
What are the primary external resources that you use to support your patients with mental health and substance misuse needs?
What have been the wins and challenges in connecting patients with these resources?
9:30 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. – Break
9:35 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. – The Continuum of Behavioral Health and Services – James Myers, LSW, Community Care and Magellan
10:10am to 10:35am – Resources for Practices Serving Children: Telephonic Psychiatric Services (TiPs)
Presenter: James Waxmonsky, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, University Chair in Child Psychiatry, Penn State University, Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Penn State Health
10:35 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. – The Role of Primary Care: Approaches for Addressing Mental Health and Substance Misuse Across the Continuum – Facilitator: Suzanne Cohen, Health Federation
Ketra Forry, MA, LPC, CAADC, MTTS, Manager Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Services, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Perla Plasencia, LCSW, Behavioral Health Consultant, Berks Community Health Center
11:25 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Wrap-Up
Laura Line, Health Federation
James Myers, LSW, Community Care and Magellan
James Waxmonsky, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, University Chair in Child Psychiatry, Penn State University, Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Penn State Health
Suzanne Cohen, Health Federation
Ketra Forry, MA, LPC, CAADC, MTTS, Manager Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Services, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Perla Plasencia, LCSW, Behavioral Health Consultant, Berks Community Health Center
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 3.0 continuing education credits.
Available Credit
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 3.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 3.00 ASWB
- 3.00 Attendance