Today’s healthcare systems face immense challenges in providing high quality patient care, reducing healthcare costs and preventing physician burnout.

With the movement toward valued-based contracting, integrated care service delivery models have emerged to help health care systems face these challenges. The benefits include:

• Better patient health outcomes such as improved patient functioning and increased adherence to medication and treatment recommendations
• Enhanced patient experience by increasing access and satisfaction with healthcare services
• Improved physician wellness by decreasing burnout
• Reduced healthcare costs by decreasing medically unnecessary emergency department visits and referrals to specialists

For Healthcare systems who have not yet integrated, understanding and implementing these models can be daunting. Integrated care consulting teams have the expertise to make the process more efficient and successful.

For over 20 years, the Integrated Care Consulting Team at SLBMI has collaborated with over 50 organizations in the delivery and reimbursement of integrated care services. We have expertise in all facets of integrated care including program design, clinical practice, supervision, training, and research.

Our team recognizes each organization, and each primary care and specialty clinic within, have unique strengths and challenges and we work with Administrative Leadership, Physicians, Behavioral Health Providers, and Clinic Staff to understand where they are and where they want to be. We develop a multifaceted approach to meet the organization’s vision and needs as whole. Our consultative and training services include:

• Program planning and design
• Consultation site visits
• Introductory didactics on integrated care models
• Advanced didactics on integrated care service delivery including billing and service
  reimbursement

Whether your system is thinking about integration for the first time or working on program development or training, the Integrated Care Consulting Team at SLBMI is here to help. To learn more about our consultative and training services for your organization or your personal professional development, please contact:

Dawn Prentice, LCSW, Director of Clinical Operations and Integrated Care
Email: [email protected]

Margaret Cornell, Psy.D. Associate Director of Integrated Care
Email: [email protected]

Current Consultations

2022-Present – Casa de Salud
2008-Present – Missouri Federally Qualified Health Centers and Community Mental Health Centers Integration Initiative, Missouri Primary Care Health Home Initiative

Past Consultations

2016-2018 – Missouri Primary Care Association, Missouri Foundation for Health
2012-2014 – Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Centers Integration Project, St. Louis Regional Health Commission, Episcopal-Presbyterian Health Medical Trust
2009-2010 – St. Louis Community Foundation
2008-2009 – Crider Health Center, Wentzville, MO
2004-2009 – Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation