Dr. Blount is Prof. Emeritus of Family Medicine at UMass Med Sch. He consults and offers training in behavioral health integration and patient-centered care.
Massachusetts
Joined June 2009
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Where is the PCBH workforce? - Lack of fit between the training of most mental health professionals and the skills and mental models needed for successful functioning in a Primary Care Behavioral Health setting causes a great deal of... tmblr.co/Z6D8cxd1yn0u8a00
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National Health Center Week is just 1 month away! Learn how your Community Health Center can participate in this week of celebrating the impact health centers make for their communities: healthcenterweek.org/
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Cool to see @LLBean going off the social media grid and leaving behind online resources that encourage people to spend more time outside and prioritize their #mentalhealth in place of all its archived posts. wabi.tv/2022/04/26/ll-bean-g…
Advice for new leaders in primary care behavioral health - A common question: I work in a university health center that is creating a BH manager position for a relatively new, unestablished BH practice/transition, and agency leadership... tmblr.co/Z6D8cxbpJplo0e00
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Primary care is the most important part of our health care system, but it's woefully neglected. We need to fix the primary care supply crisis in the US, or patients will suffer. bit.ly/3urV7FU
1/25-NCQA gave a training on Person-Driven Outcome Approach for “Complex Patients” which will become part of PCMH standards in the future. Good training. A 2019 book is available that outlines the need and the pathway to this important goal. integratedprimarycare.com/co…
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Miller: there are lots of great resources in this space, including teamtelemed.net. Virtual care is a great tool for integrating care in a much more healthy and effective manner.
Announcing a new website TEAMtelemed.net. It is a resource for health professionals who are learning and/or teaching #patientcenteredcare, #teambasedcare, #behavioralhealthintegration, and the potential of #telemedicine for delivering high-touch care to patients.
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"People who use drugs and those who love them have helped reverse thousands of overdoses in the US, saving friends, family members, and strangers. They’ve done this work without recognition, without fanfare, and sometimes at great risk to themselves."
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time.com/6071580/teletheraph… Good to point out the gap. Stigma of MH services is still a factor. Minorities tend to prefer to get mental health care in primary care, not MH facilities. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2066…
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Telehealth has indisputably improved #mentalhealth care access—but not to such an extent that it delivers on promises of revolutionizing the mental-health system. The same problems that kept many people from seeking care before the pandemic still exist
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A great example from #Montana that shows we can indeed have a difference response to #mentalhealth crises khn.org/news/article/in-ment…
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The things we know yet don't always want to address: Psychological effects of #COVID19 may be felt in young people for a long time to come thehill.com/changing-america…
HHS' B.H. Coord. Council is important, but if the 3 billion in block grants only go to specialty mental health and substance use services, we will continue to fail to account for @60% of patients' in need who will only access services in Primary Care. bit.ly/2QZxymq
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You go #NewMexico - New State Law Eliminates All Copays, Coinsurance, and Deductibles for #mentalhealth and Substance Use Disorder Services
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Health outcomes (chronic disease rates; rates of mental health, substance use; medical morbidity; quality of life ratings; rates of experiencing trauma; birth outcomes; and life expectancy) all correlate in a monotonic relationship with income. mentalhealth411.substack.com…
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The literature is clear, poverty negatively impacts our #mentalhealth e.g. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
This is why we should look at those policy changes that address poverty as benefitting mental #health. It's a different mindset, but an important one
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Preparing for the Cares Act and Open Notes - With few exceptions, all healthcare records of each patient will have to be easily accessible to the patient very shortly. I have been active in making Behavioral Health and Medical records of... tmblr.co/Z6D8cxZ-vKHg0q00
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So much great advice from @AlexanderBlount
2 best:
1. If PCP steps out of exam room to tell you about a patient, say, “let’s go back together & you can tell me about them while I meet them”
2. Share and review each session note with your patient.
Include patients in their care!
For a perspective of good things happening in the West, I like High Country News. This is an example from the home state of the bison-horned insurrectionist so much in the news. hcn.org/articles/south-extre…