AMA STEPS Forward®

Practice innovation strategies: Behavioral health integration

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Integrating medical and behavioral health care services within primary care practices helps promote more accessible and equitable treatment of patients’ behavioral, mental and physical health needs. The AMA STEPS Forward® program provides physician practices with evidence-based best practices, tools, aggregated resources and practical solutions to implementing and sustaining integrated behavioral health care.

Behavioral health

Build welcoming patient environments, collaborative care team models and systems for improved patient communication.

Compendium

Developed by the BHI Collaborative, the Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Compendium serves as a tool to learn about integrating behavioral health care, which includes mental health and substance use disorders care, and how to make it effective for your practice and patients.

Learn what your practice needs to make the best decisions for the mental health of your patients.

Explore the collection of behavioral health integration resources

  1. Toolkits: How-to guides for implementation

    1. Toolkits focus on behavioral health education, including the resources and support physicians need to bring medical and behavioral health services together.
  2. Webinars

    1. Access strategies and solutions to catalyzing effective and sustainable integration of behavioral and mental health care into physician practices.
  3. Podcasts

    1. Practice experts share how they successfully integrated behavioral health care into their practice workflow, creating a seamless experience for patients and the care team.

Innovation Academy

AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy provides practice resources such as webinars, mentoring, learning collaboratives, boot camps, and more.

About AMA STEPS Forward

AMA STEPS Forward presents actionable, practical toolkits and customizable resources that you can use to successfully implement meaningful and transformative change in your practice or organization. Learn more.

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