United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices
Montefiore Health System and the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine have been awarded grants that they hope will lead to primary care physicians in small practices better support for treating common behavioral health conditions like anxiety and depression.
The two grants, one for $188,320 from the United Hospital Fund and one for $215,670 from the New York State Health Foundation, will allow Montefiore to support and evaluate a new mental health advancement guide it helped create called "Advancing Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Continuum-Based Framework." The publication, which is available online, serve as a framework to help six primary care practices in NYC and another five elsewhere in the state implement and/or improve access to behavioral health services...