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ForwardPCMH Western PA Learning Session 10.19.22
The Learning Session will assist all the members of the health care team to understand how they all have input in the workflow surrounding suicide risk assessments and connecting to Special Needs Units. We will also provide more information to the PCMH participants about the Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service Program and how that can assist them to improve patient outcomes this will also include an update on the new behavioral health and substance use information sharing laws.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84086273460?pwd=cUxIZ3R1eUpNRFV6OG1mdXZoS2laZz09
Meeting ID: 840 8627 3460 Passcode: 2022 One tap mobile +13017158592,,84086273460# US
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. to 8:40 a.m. – Welcome – Robert Ferguson, MPH, Chief Policy Officer, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) – Review the key takeaways from the spring and summer sessions relating to suicide risk assessment tools, SNU and ICP collaboration, and 988 (including an update on the current status of 988 in PA).
8:40 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. – PCMH Report Outs: Suicide Risk Assessment, 988, and SNU and ICP Collaboration – Pauline Taylor, CQIA, Program Specialist, PRHI
Each PCMH reports out on one of the following topics:
Suicide Risk Assessment:
o In response to the spring presentation about suicide risk assessments, what changes to your suicide risk assessment process are you considering?
o If you are already using a validated suicide risk assessment (beyond depression screens like the PHQ-9), how is this assessment part of your PCMH’s workflow? What best practices or lessons learned would you recommend to other PCMHs?
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o If your patients or PCMH have called 988 (the new number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) what was your experience?
PCMH Collaborations with SNUs and ICPs
o In response to the summer sessions about improving collaborations with the SNUs and ICPs, what best practices or information did you bring back to your PCMH team? What changes is your team considering or testing?
9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. – Sharing Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug (AOD) Information between Behavioral and Physical Health Providers – Robert Ferguson, MPH, Chief Policy Officer, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI)
We will review the current federal and state information sharing laws and regulations, including PA Act 32 (P.L. 428) and Act 33 (P.L. 430) signed into law in July 2022 (https://www.ddap.pa.gov/Pages/SUD-Confidentiality.aspx).
A react panel will discuss the implications of these changes:
Dr. Nick DeGregorio, UPMC Health Plan
Amie Hoffman, Geisinger Health Plan
Kim Gatten, AmeriHealth Caritas
Michelle Chisholm, M.A., Behavioral Health Program Director, ELFHCC
10:15 a.m. to 10:25 a.m. - Break
10:25 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. – Breakouts: Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service Program (TiPS) & Integrated Care Plan (ICP) Program
The pediatric PCMHs will go to the TiPS breakout, and the PCMHs that primarily care for adults will go to the ICP breakout. The Behavioral Health MCOs will also be invited to go to the ICP breakout.
The TiPS breakout includes Dr. Abigail Schlesinger from Children’s TiPS and Samantha Faulds, MS, RHIA from UPMC Children’s Primary Care Center and will focus on:
- how to educate PCMH providers about TiPS
- how to incorporate TiPS into their workflows
- the impact on providers and patients
- facilitators and barriers to using TiPS
The ICP breakout includes Jenny Flanagan, Coordinator, Integrated Care Team, CCBH and Rachel Lee-Price, LSW, Manager, Behavioral Health Clinical Services and will focus on:
- Remind participants what an ICP plan looks like and the purpose/benefits of the ICP plan
- Reflect back on the barriers and emerging countermeasures/ideas from the summer sessions, offering examples of what an improved PCMH-MCO communication plan/process could look like (i.e., different target conditions of the ideal ICP process and communication plan between the MCOs and PCMHs)
- Foreshadow that the ICP may be available through a care management module for PCMHs connected to a P3N-certified HIE in early 2023
- Continue the discussion to further refine the improvements for how PCMHs receive and use ICPs with MCOs to coordinate physical, behavioral, and social services for adult patients with SMI from the patient’s perspective
11:25 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Wrap Up – Pauline Taylor, Program Specialist, PRHI
Target Audience
Nurse
Physician
Social Worker
Learning Objectives
• Discuss examples of how PCMHs are screening for suicide risk, using 988, and collaborating with the HealthChoices Managed Care Organizations’ Special Needs Units and Integrated Care Plan Program
• Describe how to share mental health and alcohol and other drug information between treating providers
• Describe how to incorporate the TiPS program into PCMH providers’ workflows
• Discuss examples of how to improve MCO-PCMH processes and communication plans for receiving and using Integrated Care Plans to improve care coordination for individuals with serious mental illness
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 Audience Disclosure slides (003).pptx | 459.31 KB |
 PCMH Western 10.19.22 Agenda - updated.pdf | 200.67 KB |
| 2022 Act 32 - PA General Assembly.pdf | 104.13 KB |
| 2022 Act 33 - PA General Assembly.pdf | 119.17 KB |
 PCMH 2022 Summer Sessions_ICP Key Takeaways.docx | 50.31 KB |
The Learning Session will assist all the members of the health care team to understand how they all have input in the workflow surrounding suicide risk assessments and connecting to Special Needs Units. We will also provide more information to the PCMH participants about the Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service Program and how that can assist them to improve patient outcomes this will also include an update on the new behavioral health and substance use information sharing laws.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84086273460?pwd=cUxIZ3R1eUpNRFV6OG1mdXZoS2laZz09
Meeting ID: 840 8627 3460 Passcode: 2022 One tap mobile +13017158592,,84086273460# US
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. to 8:40 a.m. – Welcome – Robert Ferguson, MPH, Chief Policy Officer, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) – Review the key takeaways from the spring and summer sessions relating to suicide risk assessment tools, SNU and ICP collaboration, and 988 (including an update on the current status of 988 in PA).
8:40 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. – PCMH Report Outs: Suicide Risk Assessment, 988, and SNU and ICP Collaboration – Pauline Taylor, CQIA, Program Specialist, PRHI
Each PCMH reports out on one of the following topics:
Suicide Risk Assessment:
o In response to the spring presentation about suicide risk assessments, what changes to your suicide risk assessment process are you considering?
o If you are already using a validated suicide risk assessment (beyond depression screens like the PHQ-9), how is this assessment part of your PCMH’s workflow? What best practices or lessons learned would you recommend to other PCMHs?
988
o If your patients or PCMH have called 988 (the new number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) what was your experience?
PCMH Collaborations with SNUs and ICPs
o In response to the summer sessions about improving collaborations with the SNUs and ICPs, what best practices or information did you bring back to your PCMH team? What changes is your team considering or testing?
9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. – Sharing Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug (AOD) Information between Behavioral and Physical Health Providers – Robert Ferguson, MPH, Chief Policy Officer, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI)
We will review the current federal and state information sharing laws and regulations, including PA Act 32 (P.L. 428) and Act 33 (P.L. 430) signed into law in July 2022 (https://www.ddap.pa.gov/Pages/SUD-Confidentiality.aspx).
A react panel will discuss the implications of these changes:
Dr. Nick DeGregorio, UPMC Health Plan
Amie Hoffman, Geisinger Health Plan
Kim Gatten, AmeriHealth Caritas
Michelle Chisholm, M.A., Behavioral Health Program Director, ELFHCC
10:15 a.m. to 10:25 a.m. - Break
10:25 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. – Breakouts: Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service Program (TiPS) & Integrated Care Plan (ICP) Program
The pediatric PCMHs will go to the TiPS breakout, and the PCMHs that primarily care for adults will go to the ICP breakout. The Behavioral Health MCOs will also be invited to go to the ICP breakout.
The TiPS breakout includes Dr. Abigail Schlesinger from Children’s TiPS and Samantha Faulds, MS, RHIA from UPMC Children’s Primary Care Center and will focus on:
- how to educate PCMH providers about TiPS
- how to incorporate TiPS into their workflows
- the impact on providers and patients
- facilitators and barriers to using TiPS
The ICP breakout includes Jenny Flanagan, Coordinator, Integrated Care Team, CCBH and Rachel Lee-Price, LSW, Manager, Behavioral Health Clinical Services and will focus on:
- Remind participants what an ICP plan looks like and the purpose/benefits of the ICP plan
- Reflect back on the barriers and emerging countermeasures/ideas from the summer sessions, offering examples of what an improved PCMH-MCO communication plan/process could look like (i.e., different target conditions of the ideal ICP process and communication plan between the MCOs and PCMHs)
- Foreshadow that the ICP may be available through a care management module for PCMHs connected to a P3N-certified HIE in early 2023
- Continue the discussion to further refine the improvements for how PCMHs receive and use ICPs with MCOs to coordinate physical, behavioral, and social services for adult patients with SMI from the patient’s perspective
11:25 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Wrap Up – Pauline Taylor, Program Specialist, PRHI
Robert Ferguson, MPH, Chief Policy Officer, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI)
Pauline Taylor, CQIA, Program Specialist, PRHI
Dr. Nick DeGregorio, UPMC Health Plan
Amie Hoffman, Geisinger Health Plan
Kim Gatten, AmeriHealth Caritas
Michelle Chisholm, M.A., Behavioral Health Program Director, ELFHCC
Dr. Abigail Schlesinger from Children’s TiPS
Samantha Faulds, MS, RHIA from UPMC Children’s Primary Care Center
Jenny Flanagan, Coordinator, Integrated Care Team, CCBH
Rachel Lee-Price, LSW, Manager, Behavioral Health Clinical Services
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.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 3.0 contact hours.
Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 3.0 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
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