Coordinate, Collocate, Collaborate

New White Paper Explores How to Achieve Clinical Integration

COLUMBIA, MD – AbsoluteCare, a healthcare organization that provides care beyond medicine for its members, is pleased to announce the release of “Coordinate, Collocate, Collaborate: How to Achieve Clinical Integration,” by David Applegate, MD; Susan Padrino, MD, and Faith Tarver, Vice President of Behavioral Health.

The new paper explores the connection between behavioral and physical health and the impacts on each made by social determinants of health. Any one of these challenges can be daunting to patients of chronic disease management programs. That’s why having a clinically integrated network is so important for physical health, integrated behavioral health, mental health and social determinants of health.

Instantaneous access to medical information such as medications and medical tests is just one small piece of the puzzle that is a clinically integrated network. “Providers must coordinate with each other and the member,” says Faith Tarver, one of the paper’s authors. “Collocation further increases the patient’s access to follow-up care, but collaboration among providers and members is the key to true clinical integration.”

“AbsoluteCare has a strategy for treating members with complex, chronic conditions, including mental health, behavioral health, and substance use issues,” said Dr. Greg Foti, Chief Medical and Transformation Officer of AbsoluteCare. “This model is built to allow time for the team to work together to address the needs of the whole person.”

Mike Radu, CEO, said, “Our healthcare system is so fragmented as it stands. Typical patients struggle to make and keep one appointment, so referring them to therapists and rehabilitation centers and sending them out for x-rays or IV infusions would cause significant hardship. AbsoluteCare is true clinical integration that meets quality metrics and benchmarks.”

Read “Coordinate, Collocate, Collaborate” here.

Interested in having AbsoluteCare support your high-need Medicaid or Medicare Advantage Members? Reach out to marketing@absolutecare.com to be put in touch with our growth team.

Posted: August 2023