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  1. Enjoying the CFHA Conference and the beautiful San Diego weather. This is the place to be if you are in integrated behavioral health. 11:07 AM Oct 24th from Twitterrific
  2. Hmm, how to deal with the phenomenon of Pts not returning when they get better - which means your outcome data is skewed. 9:45 PM Oct 13th from Twitterrific
  3. One of the challenges of BHC work is the volume which leads to lots of notes and extra work. At 8 min per SOAP note, 16 patients= 2+hrs. 5:56 AM Oct 11th from Twitterrific
  4. Check this great article about BHCs in Philly: http://bit.ly/1NtUpc 7:12 PM Sep 28th from Twitterrific
  5. Visiting a CHC in St. Louis that has a great start on integrating care. 8:54 PM Aug 25th from Twitterrific
  6. When training interns focus not only on content but critical, efficient, integrative thinking skills using structured verbal reporting. 8:42 AM Aug 22nd from Twitterrific
  7. @Sunrise959 not sure what you mean about which response.I thought I sent a response saying that indeed we do check TSH whenever we see PTs. 8:38 AM Aug 22nd from Twitterrific in reply to Sunrise959
  8. Enough of the lies about health insurance reform. Let's set the record straight: http://bit.ly/eM0jS 1:13 PM Aug 19th from web
  9. Psychopharm tip of the day: ask PTs carefully what intended effects they want from meds and use those to guide med recs to PCPs. 8:24 PM Aug 13th from Twitterrific
  10. Everytime. That's the beauty of working in primary care- we can get this done right away. Usually we start SSRIs imm. since these are rare. 8:21 PM Aug 13th from Twitterrific
  11. PCPs referred 2 OCD cases, 1 a child. Protocol for a first consult usually includes med education, relaxation training, response prevention. 4:31 PM Aug 6th from Twitterrific
  12. Check this excellent video from a recent APA conference (PCBH model)Extreme integration http://www.performedia.com/... 10:39 AM Aug 5th from Twitterrific
  13. Developing a registry and a protocol for it's use in population based and individal patient care can be difficult but it's worth it. 10:34 AM Aug 5th from Twitterrific
  14. P.S. I know of 5 open positions in integrated care (psychol. or LCSW) in NH, PA, MO. 4:36 PM Aug 4th from Twitterrific
  15. We will be interviewed at NCSPP conference tomorrow on workforce development issues. Looking forward to schools training integ. care psychs. 4:33 PM Aug 4th from Twitterrific
  16. Orienting post-docs today... First-day chaos as usual. :) 8:03 AM Aug 3rd from Twitterrific
  17. Slow morning but saw 4 patients: depression, bipolar, substance abuse, and smoking cessation. Also working on our registry. 2:07 PM Jul 30th from Twitterrific
  18. Here's our daily protocol: get peds screeners ready for well child checks, check PCP appts for smokers, review BH appts, get visible. 9:39 AM Jul 27th from Twitterrific
  19. Saw 6 patients in the AM: depression - 2, bipolar-2, schizoaffective-1, smoke cessation-1. Five were warm handoffs. 6:03 PM Jul 23rd from Twitterrific
  20. An all too common scenario today- the PT in primary care who really needs hospitalization but b/c of lack of insurance is turned away. Uggh! 7:39 PM Jul 21st from Twitterrific