Don R. Lipsitt Award Lecture for Achievement in Collaborative Care: Strategies to Scale Collaborative Care (CoCM)‎

The Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) is an evidence-based, team-delivered integrated model for ‎treatment of common mental health conditions in medical settings. More than 90 CoCM RCT ‎studies have demonstrated that CoCM can achieve the quintuple aim of healthcare reform including ‎improving population health mental health outcomes, reducing total cost of care, improving ‎provider satisfaction, improving patient experience and reducing health disparities and stigma. ‎However, significant practice changes are required to implement and sustain CoCM and these ‎challenges have limited the uptake of this important approach to improving access to high-quality ‎mental health care. ‎

This session will review key strategies that support scaling Collaborative Care and draw on the ‎experience of presenters from the University of Washington’s (UW) Advancing Integrated Mental ‎Health Solutions (AIMS) Center and Integrated Care Training Program. A brief overview of the ‎Collaborative Care Model will be followed by an overview of the AIMS Center implementation and ‎coaching approach. The importance of using metrics to facilitate implementation and quality in ‎CoCM will be discussed. The final section will describe strategies to build the behavioral health ‎workforce to support CoCM delivery. ‎

References
‎1.‎ Archer J, Bower P, Gilbody S, et al. Collaborative care for depression and anxiety ‎problems. In: Archer J, ed. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Chichester, UK: ‎John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012:2-4. ‎
‎2.‎ Moise N et al. Sustainability of collaborative care management for depression in primary ‎care settings with academic affiliations across New York State. Implement Sci. 2018 Oct ‎‎12;13(1):128. ‎
‎3.‎ Unützer J et al. Variation In The Effectiveness Of Collaborative Care For Depression: Does ‎It Matter Where You Get Your Care? Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Nov;39(11):1943-1950.‎